Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?

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.

Holy shit! Can we say unstable? Was I the only sane one around here? Well, I guess that really wasn’t setting the standard very high." -Ember, Darkness Of Light

If the components of the body were organs and veins and cells, then the components of thought and language were words and grammar.

When people undermine your values, they've strong reasons. For example, they mistaken your passion for excellence as perfectionism...

I don't like politicians, and I don't like politics. I definitely don't want to be associated with any of them.

Reinvent yourself. Repeat.

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.

That was a great time, the summer of '71 - I can't remember it, but I'll never forget it!

The single biggest existential threat that's out there, I think, is cyber.

The issue for us is trusting God enough to trust also His timing. If we can truly believe He has our welfare at heart, may we not let His plans unfold as He thinks best?

So in his very politically-incorrect way, I think [James Mattis] is a good counterpart to Donald Trump, who doesn't read books.