In the acquisition of a new habit, or the leaving off of an old one, we must take care to launch ourselves with as strong and decided an initiative as possible.

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.

For writing a first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life does not induce. ... how to set yourself spinning?

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid.

A storyteller, a displaced poet, will absorb reading differently.

By fulfilling our divinely appointed jobs as parents, we can be God's tools that define and refine our children as they are sculpted into the individuals that He wants them to be.

Nobody actually looks like what they really are on the inside. You don't. I don't.

You always have energy to do what you are passionate about.

Speaking of the devil, well here he comes now. Got my defenses down. And I'd go through hell to make him mine.

It sounds simple, of course, but personally I can think of no more mentally arduous task than making music.

I'm taking one for the team, Like Martin Luther King, taking one for a dream

It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things.