Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

Don't be concerned with other people's impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.

From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do -- now.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; "you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well

My most serious character flaw is that I don't deny myself much.

It's hard to read through a book on the principles of magic without glancing at the cover periodically to make sure it isn't a book on software design.

On this 101st FA Cup Final day, there are just two teams left

My distinguishing talent is the ability to put people under the microscope, perhaps to go one or two layers farther down than some other directors.

Design is a thinking process that starts in the head and with sketches. Thinking cannot be done by a computer.

The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.

Love is woman's business,and in "business" we all lay aside our natural weaknesses.

You don't need to crave anything, because you are already everything. It's all here, right now.

If evangelism isn't an expression of love of neighbor, it isn't Christian evangelizing. And love of neighbor includes not only what I say to the neighbor but how I say that.

The last time I saw Elvis was when I played my second New Years Eve show for him in 1970.