I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
-Garrison Keillor
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
-George Bernard Shaw
Adverse circumstances bother you only till the time you pay attention to them.
The moment you divert your attention onto favourable circumstances, all your
troubles vanish.
-Deep Trivedi
In thinking, “This is I” and “That is mine”, he binds himself with his self, as does a bird with a snare.
There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.
-Robert Brault
If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
-Carl Schurz
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois