Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker.

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.

Being rude to someone loving all the time can make your loving behavior same as your rude one for that person. So you should not always be rude in small mistakes

I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling.

Life is not a question of how much happiness we want, it is how happiness uses time to make our wants into need.

The psycho-physiological hypothesis is both inductively and deductively the sine qua non of the science of psychology.

My Advice to Young Filmmakers is This: Don't Follow Trends. Start Them!

He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.

I'm a fairly fast, but sloppy writer, so I'm a big fan of re-writing, and re-writing again.

I'm not a trained actor. I'm someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own.

I'm basically a poetry scholar, and I'm happier here in my studio with my row of Chinese dictionaries than I am, frankly, at Lincoln Center.

I worry that we don't currently have a democracy in the United States. Instead we have what [political philosopher] Sheldon Wolin has recently labeled a sort of inverted totalitarianism.