Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

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.

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody it saves so much trouble

Life is a lively process of becoming.

I always distrust the word art when it is applied to acting.

Wait, Wikipedia isn't working? Why hasn't someone invented a paper version of it? A set of books organized alphabetically by topic?

And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents.

What's a victory when its hollow?

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.

I'm terrified of performing live.

God sends us the poor to try us.... And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God has given lays up poverty in store for his own posterity.