Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.

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.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

The idea of a teenage Dumbledore was simply odd, like trying to imagine a stupid Hermione or a friendly Blast-Ended Skrewt.

I love Baltimore, I want to retire a raven

[On her troubled relationships with her daughters:] You can acquire enemies. Why give birth to them?

You can hardly do anything that won't seem stupid later.

I'm happy as a dog with two dicks

I still dance, probably three times a week, unless I'm working on a crazy job, and then I just don't have any free time at all.