For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

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.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

In life, more than in anything else, it isn’t easy to end up alive.

My blog is a collection of answers people don’t want to hear to questions they didn’t ask.

You die in the middle of your life.

They tried to escape technology, to stay away from that and still have relationships with their fellow humans. Very difficult.

If someone else made 'Up in the Air' or 'Thank You For Smoking' or 'Juno,' I would have wanted to rip their head off. I need that same sort of passion for every project I take on.

That experience of being in the wild in a place where life initially began for all creatures gave me a overwhelming sense of connection.

No hungry man who is also sober can be persuaded to use his last dollar for anything but food.

We've been in that situation where you're just so happy to be doing what you love to do that you get taken advantage of.

The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

And maybe there's no peace in this world, for us or for anyone else, I don't know. But I do know that, as long as we live, we must remain true to ourselves.