How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.

There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.

For the moment, what we attend to is reality.

The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.

The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.