Cheerfulness is that quality which enables one to make others happy. It takes its origin half in personal goodness, and half in the belief of the personal goodness of others.

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?

Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.

The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.