Even the stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility to be found?

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Nothing is more tragic than loving someone to the depths of your soul and knowing they cannot and will not ever love you back.

It's war that makes generals

Hope Love Grace Luckthere is space between them because you can't hanle them if all four comes at once...enjoy hope, , , , definitely love will come to you with a small gap, and so grace and luck too.

Every word that I utter matters and this makes me speechless.

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.

That lasting things do, in fact, last.

The Christian always swears a bloody oath that he will never do it again. The civilized man simply resolves to be a bit more careful next time.

Our enslavement to oil has required the repression of millions of Arab people. As they shake off their bonds, so must we.

From the very beginning, we bucked tradition. When the experts said that something was "always done" in a certain way, we'd do it our way, which was sometimes the very opposite.