Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

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.

I would love a sandwich, ' said Tybalt, with enough gravity to make it sound like a formal proclamation. Resolved: that we will have ham and cheese sandwiches.

When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape.

Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us--not to mention our crockery and our woolens!

Either I'm too sensitive, or else I'm gettin' soft

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation

Illness is often a sign that you need to make an adjustment in your life path.

Sometimes one feels that it would be merciful to tear down these houses, for they must often dream.

How was I supposed to know what's real and what's not? It feels like I'm the only one who doesn't know the difference.

Conservative Denyers and Delayers are the main reason America lacks the consensus and the political will to take up the fight against catastrophic climate change.

As a boy I remember how terribly real the statues of the saints would seem at 7 o'clock Mass-before I'd had breakfast. From that I learned always to conduct hungry.