How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it.

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.

today, live your life to the fullest because tomorrow is a mystery, don't enter it with regrets

I would have died, before a literary agent ever committed to my book. This is why I chose to empower myself by self publishing.

Smile and the world smiles with you...Weep and you weep alone.

Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.

Sleep just gives the ego a little time out. It has to stay strong in order to be something that it isn't.

The price of corn will naturally rise with the difficulty of producing the last portions of it.

America remembers. On this 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the nation honors those who were lost.

If it's possible to be in a good situation replacing a legend, he's in a good situation.

He is the furthest from danger, who is on his guard even when in safety.

If you have several ideas that all seem pretty good, work on the one that you think about, when you're not trying to think about work.