Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee.

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.

I suppose you cannot hold on to old things just for the sake of holding on.

Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

Knowledge does not keep any better than fish.

I actually pointed my wand and it blew up! The power! The power was just like Angry Birds, but big [as] life.

While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.

You do a job like mine because you love the job, not because it's going to make you famous.

Whether my days are cooled with calm or filled with fever's ardent taint, I have the same blue sky as God, I have the same God as the saint.

I am a Mormon woman, I am not orthodox. It is the lens through which I see the world. I hear the Tabernacle Choir and it still makes me weep.

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.