Happiness is no other than soundness and perfection of mind.

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.

She surveyed the carnage behind him. "Did you have fun?"He showed her his teeth. "Yes.

Dream-start with dream. Start tonight-become who you want-dream big!" He became animated at this point, "No money needed for dreams. Dreams are free.

Thanks to my art, I now know who I am.

One of my pet peeves about Nashville is that it tends to be copycatted. I don't want to do that. I've got to be different.

Self-confidence is something caught and not taught. And, risk-running and chance-taking are the only ways to catch it.

The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.

People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that's what they've always cast me as.

Because technically actors are just public servants really. They just tell stories because people need to be told stories. That's all it is. And yet we get treated as though we're important.

I am not in 'Us Weekly.' I'd have to be going out with someone who is in there to be in there myself.

Anytime I've ever been involved in a non-linear story, you see it in a linear manner first, just to make sure it makes sense, and then you chop it up and move it around.