Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.

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 only mistake you can make is not asking for help.

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.

We often see a temper of the times connection, and it's just like a fairy tale. It's not true.

Liberty begets license.

When you're an older woman [in a movie] you tend to be in - how did you put it? You're the brunt of the joke.

The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.

Oh, I’ll fight you,” she promised, her eyes clear of shadows. “That’s the way I roll.

I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.

If your ride through life is not as smooth as you would like it to be, blaming the road may not be the answer.