We are born for cooperation, as are the feet, the hands, the eyelids, and the upper and lower jaws.

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.

The more a happy and positive person you are, The more successful and easy your life will be.

Stop assuming I don't have any emotions. My inner thoughts might not be easily seen on my face. I do think and feel.

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy but never an interested person who was unhappy.

He who have two grounds of trust is lost!

I like to be nice to people, but sometimes people aren't nice to me.

Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.

I hate elitists. I hate conceited people. I hate pompous people.

The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks.

You have sexual tendencies that are not normal, and you should be ashamed of them.

When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.