He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems

If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it.

To accuse others for one's own misfortune is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!

Only the educated are free.

Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master;
he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.

Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.

It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens.

Do not try to seem wise to others.

It is impossible for anyone to begin to learn what he thinks he already knows.

Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now.

Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.