Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket.

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.

I believe consciousness is simply what it feels like to have a neocortex.

What makes night within us may leave stars.

Why do people, when they are wrong, twist the conversation around and place the blame on someone else?

She focused on that nothingness, imagined it as ink spilling over everything she could possibly think or feel.

You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.

[Statistics are] the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue the Science of Man.

I brought Hassan’s son from Afghanistan to America, lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty

My standard uniform is a T-shirt and jeans.

Our own GOP machine, the establishment, they who would assemble the political landscape, they're attacking their own front-runner.

People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.