There is nothing more shameful than perfidious friendship.

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.

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

what is the use of a book, ' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'"- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, Ch. 1

People look at rights as if they were muscles — the more you exercise them, the better they get.

A government that seizes control of the economy for the good of the people ends up seizing control of the people for the good of the economy

In the nature of the case, an explorer can never know what he is exploring until it has been explored.

Wisdom is doing now what you are going to be happy with later on

Very few pilots even know how to read Morse code anymore. But if a pilot could read Morse code, he could tell which beacon he was approaching by the code that was flashing from it.

It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers.

Temperance is a bridle of gold; he, who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man.

A failed experiment can be more important than a trivial design