If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.

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.

Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.

The miracle is that the brilliance of the miraculous can live in the blandness of the mundane. The greater miracle is that we have enough brilliance in our own blandness to see it.

Thus heaven's gift to us is this: That habit takes the place of bliss.

Any perceived 'rejection' is simply a 're-direction'.

Ignorance at twenty-two isn't a structural defect.

Ever since I was really little, I loved performing and being up on stage, and being the entertainment.

People go to casinos for the same reason they go on blind dates - hoping to hit the jackpot. But mostly, you just wind up broke or alone in a bar.

Man’s holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man’s greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness.

I keep my politics a little closer to me than others do.

Trust your daughters, they are faithful. Honor your daughters, they are honorable. Educate your daughters, they are amazing.