Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.

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.

A prayerless Christian is a powerless Christian.

Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I’m not lonely, if that’s what it seems like. Always writing things down.

I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

Never read Who Moved My Cheese in the workplace when you can read The Joy of Not Working.

Rome endured as long as there were Romans. America will endure as long as we remain American in spirit and in thought.

Theory is good; but it doesn't prevent things from existing.

My mother was a choreographer, so music has always been around.

...the sound of our lack of conversation amplified by the echo of our footsteps on the stone around us.

Do you who are a Christian desire to be revenged and vindicated, and the death of Jesus Christ has not yet been revenged, nor His innocence vindicated?

To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game