The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others who are late to develop it just enables them to finish the job.
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young compassionate with the aged sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
Security depends not so much upon how much you have as upon how much you can do without.
The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age your experience your psychological and spiritual need.
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does I guess you do have a problem.
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.