All things are the same, familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried.

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 future is never fixed, but always in flux until the moment it meets with the present.

If you have a very strong will to travel, the road will suddenly appear before you!

Atheism is aristocratic the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

In seeking success you must also seek fulfillment. Ask yourself not only what you want to be but who you want to be.

As a filmmaker, you look for a story, and the story has to have conflict and a match of opposites.

We need another and a wiser and a perhaps more mystical concept of animals.

Women are always being tested ... but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the very best job we can to grow into it.

Everything is self-evident.

Fundamental renegotiation is very, very unlikely to produce any significant change