Give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch.

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.

I have learned that the harder you fall…the higher you bounce!

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?

When you meditate you discover over and over again that you are not a prisoner of your mind.

There are more hooligans in the House of Commons than at a football match.

There's always this weird dark humor within a lot of Depeche Mode songs that people miss, tongue-in-cheek and also very British.

As you sit there and as I sit here, they are going in. They're taking over, and they just walk in and they can do whatever they want. They have essentially already taken it over.

You young people with your twittering and your creating of content. Or what is it - queefing? I don't know what you young people are calling it.

For me, exercise is more mental than physical. I crave it for my sanity. Not just the endorphins, but my energy, confidence, and relaxation are all motivated by it.

If a man is going to leave one wife to marry another, it's better if he divorces the first before he marries the second.

The second album is the hardest to write. Its nothing like the first album.