‎"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial

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 beauty of adversity is that when we hit bottom, the only way to go is up.

A goal is a written plan.Write your dreams and visions.

On cable TV they have a weather channel - twenty-four hours of weather. We had something like that where I grew up. We called it a window.

The British House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

A soul can create only when alone.

We live in a house of mirrors and think we are looking out the windows.

I have met so many young people who do not see the church as relevant and do not consider the Bible a real book of history that can be trusted.

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.

There is nothing more beautiful than living a simple life in this complex universe!

Man makes plans . . . and God laughs.