Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

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 is a fundamental misperception, " Fouts says to me, "to think human life has more value than any other life form.

A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.

When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.

Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being.

If in doubt, move decisions up to the President.

I like giving people something they don't want to miss the next time. It's a show with little twists and turns and curves. It has me being silly and stupid and compassionate and completely deep.

Just as dumb creatures are snared by food, human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.

Love is the fire in which everything is reduced to ashes. Only God will be saved. Only God cannot burn.

I never set out to achieve anything, certainly not fame like this,I still have to deal with how to actually make my life work.

You could never in a million years have told me Prince would not be here today.