We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it;  and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

He who has a why to live
can bear almost any how.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.

If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

Today you are you
that is truer than true
There is no one alive
who is youer than you

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

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

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.