Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind.
One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.
The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.
To a brave man good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both.
When the going gets tough, the tough get going
The event of history is hidden in time.
A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide.
Find the grain of truth in criticism - chew it and swallow it.
Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever even if your whole world seems upset.
Whatever evil befalls us we ought to ask ourselves ... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion from one bitter root to raise perhaps many flowers.
If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.
Our mistakes won't irreparably damage our lives unless we let them.
What do I think? I think it makes no difference what I think.
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Losses are comparative imagination only makes them of any moment.
What the caterpillar calls a tragedy the Master calls a butterfly.
Keep strong if possible in any case keep cool.
It is arrogance to expect that life will always be music.... Harmony like a following breeze at sea is the exception. In a world where most things wind up broken or lost our lot is to tack and tune...