We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

In fair weather prepare for foul.

There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

You were not made to live like brute beasts, but to pursue virtue and knowledge.

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.

The expert in anything was once a beginner.

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure—which is: try to please everybody.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.