I will march on in the path of nature till my legs sink under me, and then I shall be at rest, and expire into that air which has given me my daily breath.

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.

Take back your power! I wish you the wisdom to realize that the problem isn't that they keep lying to you

My sister, singer Jessie Ware, and I are always exchanging music. We brainstormed her wedding playlist for months.

The Concorde is great. It gives you three extra hours to find your luggage.

Pride is when sinful human beings aspire to the status and position of God and refuse to acknowledge their dependence upon Him.

It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'm looking for things that I can actually physically use in the movie.

All great religions have rightly regarded kama as the arch-enemy of man, anger or hatred coming only in the second place.

The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.

It's very hard for Europe, the US and Russia to have much influence on the growing problems elsewhere in the world unless we have our own backyard in a more stable and cooperative atmosphere.

Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?

There’s a benefit to losing, you get to learn from your mistakes.