Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selective you become.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

You will either get what you want or you will be used by others to get what they want.

When you make people angry, they act in accordance with their baser instincts, often violently and irrationally. When you inspire people, they act in accordance with their higher instincts, sensibly and rationally. Also, anger is transient, whereas inspiration sometimes has a life-long effect.

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Knowing that what we focus on grows, count your blessings instead of your problems.

Choose to love with all your heart, even if it sometimes breaks.

Live without pretending. Love without depending. Listen without defending. Speak without offending.