Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.

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's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.

Fear is the vehicle in which love can do its worst.

Loneliness is that feeling to understand your own Self

I need to know how you did it it. I did it, said Sweeney, with the air of one confiding a huge secret, witch panache and style. That's how I did it.(Shadow & Mad Sweeney)

Looking for Silver Linings Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains losses and disappointments.

What is an editor but a cross between a fall guy and a father figure? arthur koestler

The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.

There's no shame in crawling when one can't walk.

When you know you made a film that people are going to watch, that's just really awesome; you know you did it for something, you know you shot a film for people to watch it.

And when you talk about realization, accomplishment for that matter enlightenment is that when you realize the fundamental essence of your mind.