Your manners will depend very much upon the quality of what you frequently think on; for the soul is as it were tinged with the colour and complexion of thought.

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.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.

I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.

For drinking Life there are two cups: The No Cup is bitter, the Yes Cup is yummy -- Now, which one would you rather have in your tummy?

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. We can focus on what's wrong in our life, or we can focus on what's right.