The mind in itself wants nothing, unless it creates a want for itself; therefore it is both free from perturbation and unimpeded, if it does not perturb and impede itself.

Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces - to what is possible. It needs no specific material. It pursues its own aims as circumstances allow; it turns obstacles into fuel. As a fire overwhelms what would have quenched a lamp. What's thrown on top of the conflagration is absorbed, consumed by it - and makes it burn still higher.

Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it.

In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.

When you have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, remember that your defining characteristic-what defines a human being-is to work with others.

If you are distressed by something, it is due to your own estimate of it; and you have the power to change it at will.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.