I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

If you can change your mind, you can change your life.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.

Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.

One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water one pops up while you try to hold down the other.

Repentance is for little children.

Sometimes when people look at the work I've done with my family, they think it's autobiographical. But it really isn't. It's more about the idea of family.

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

People weep at music all the time, because music gives form to some abstract level of integration.

Laugh and a moment will soon arrive when you cry.

The single minded ones, the monomaniacs, are the only true achievers

I was always responsible for everything in my campaign.

I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.