Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in thy power.

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.

When something happens to you that is beyond words, life is happening to you. When the Ultimate is happening to you, you are beyond words.

When once we are buried you think we are gone. But behold me immortal!

Christmas is a state of mind.

...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.

All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.

A heart that overflows may seek out merrymaking and boisterous festivities to quietly rejoice, unnoticed amidst the reveling crowds.

And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships.

I am fully aware of the fact that the Democratic Party, by nominating someone of my faith, has taken on what many regard as a new and hazardous risk.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

The best antidote to the disruptive power of innovation is overregulation.