Never have a companion who casts you in the shade.

Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all.

My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.

Here is the secret of inspiration: tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Before God we are all equally wise-equally foolish.

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.