A man should remove not only unnecessary acts but also unnecessary thoughts for then superfluous activity will not follow.

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

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

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

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.

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

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

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.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

The only thing that is stuck is your mind, and you have all the power in the world to change it.

If things are real, they're there all the time.

We don't choose what's going to wake us up.

Dullness is the spice of life. Which is why we must always use other spices.

So then because some towns in England are not represented, America is to have no representative at all. They are our children; but when children ask for bread we are not to give a stone.

I grew up on you have to work hard for money, you have to work hard for money. And so I replaced that with, money comes easily and frequently.

Our goal is not to completely eradicate the infection - that would be very difficult - but to produce a vaccine that will prevent not infection but disease. I think this is more possible.

When you compete with someone as good or better than you, you may not always win, but you never lose.

My parents went through hell and back. They came to America with suitcases and a family of seven and $250, and that's it.

I think that's the most important thing: that we create dialogue.