Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

If you can change your mind, you can change your life.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.

Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.

Oh, I'm not saying that alcohol is perfect. It has caused its share of problems. Russia is only one example.

The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it.

If you're going to be alive and on this planet, you have to, like, suck the marrow out of every day and get the most out of it.

In high school I was leafing through an anthology that our teachers had given up and I found a poem, I go, "That's so strange. This poem looks so much like my grandfather's poem."

You see, deep down beneath my superficial and shallow exterior, I'm really very superficial and shallow.

When I was painting, I was painting stories I was telling myself. When I look back at it, moving to writing was a very natural progression for me.

All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.

When the inspiration comes, let everything else go!

The greater the struggle the more glorious the triumph

Being brave isn't supposed to be easy.