All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

If you can change your mind, you can change your life.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.

Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.

Never allow a minute to pass without asking yourself what you did with the time

Isn't it beautiful when you just stand there right in your track and watch something so amazing, so heart-warming, that you lose track of time and then don't know what to do from there onwards?

Franklin was a thin, pink person who was either a genius or, well, not one. Chances weren't.

New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.

I have heard of 'the dead lying in heaps', but never saw it till this battle. Whole ranks fell together.

All truth has to be expressed in sentences... the type of sentence in nature is a flash of lightning.

By losing my external things, I found myself. I found something very powerful, very permanent, that I could have with me all the time.

The idea that all are children of God is not found in the Bible anywhere.

You take jobs so much of the time when you don't need to necessarily work for a living, but it becomes important who you are going to work with.

We spend at least $5 for remedial education right now for every dollar we put in early childhood education. All the studies on early childhood education show this is going to pay for itself.