God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.

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.

Dreams are the language of God.

It was more real than anything she’d ever imagined, and she clung to that in the same way that the sky clung to the earth.

Until we begin to discover and create value, purposefully and systemically, we are not humans but only biomass

Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming. I always thought that would be the epic award in sports to get.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk and to make our words and actions all of a color.

We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz announced he is running for president. Ted Cruz was born in Canada, his father fled to the United States from Cuba, and yet Ted Cruz is against immigration. Isn't that odd?

Our democracy if self-cleansing. If you don't like it, be a candidate, or support a candidate.

I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life.

A can-do attitude, a positive personality, and a strong work ethic are still the primary ingredients for success at Nordstrom.