Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results.

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.

People blame their failures on past birth, destiny, surroundings, and rarely to self in the order of their evolved mental state. The converse is rather more true for the successful people.

If size really mattered, the whale, not the shark, would rule the waters.

Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow.

And the English army, wheeling, started south at a gallop over the hill pass into Ettrick, followed by twenty men and eight hundred sheep in steel helmets.

The most comforting feeling ever is knowing that someone truly likes your entire existence. I feel that way right now. Thank you.

A band is only as good as its euphonium section.

... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate one antidote - the Daguerreotype. (1845)

Improvisation is the art of being completely O.K. with not knowing what the f— you’re doing

There are 50 new tabloids every year, and I'm in them, and I read them, and I do stupid things.

In Judo, he who thinks is immediately thrown.