A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

The eye of a man is never satisfied with seeing.

But in another world, another life, probably growing up in another country, I might have been more of a dancer.

When I'm really stressed emotionally, I say to myself that there's only so much I can do to change things. Life happens on life's terms. Then, I go for a run.

I believed that once we got to the Moon, there was no stopping us. But in fact, we did stop.

I always thought that the way to believe more deeply was to surround myself with other Christians. After all, isn't that the traditional tool for religious socialization?

Adversity is an effective, thorough and highly personalized teacher.

I just want to tell stories that have an impact on people. Somebody needs to have an impact because people are lost. People are really lost.

It is not possible for form to do without matter because it is not separable, nor can matter itself be purged of form.

Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world.

It's not a master plan to do every remake and every recreation of icons. It's just what I've been hired to do.