Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.

I ought to reflect again and again, and yet again, that the beings that I have to steer are just as inevitable in the scheme of evolution as I am myself; have just as much right to be themselves as I am entitled to; and they all deserve from me as much sympathy as I give to myself.

The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them

You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. It is unstealable. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.

You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself.