Everything is mere opinion.

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.

Give your life a destination.

When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

Trapped, cutting herself against the jagged edges of her emotions, she was a prisoner of her own spirit.

Fortune helps the brave.

The stuff I write isn't strictly autobiographical, but it's personal, if that makes any sense. It draws all these little incidents and people out of my life and then contorts them.

I'm completely opposed to the idea of becoming accustomed to foreign military campaigns.

Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.

Hatred can be overcome only by love.

I thought that I'd always just do Broadway, my original plan, but that was derailed.