It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

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.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

Light enters a broken vessel more easily than an intact one.

Men were born to protect and love, and our women help us to serve a higher purpose.

Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing.

You can't tell an audience to like a character. And I think the best way to get the audience on someone's side is to embarrass them.

The hands of Fate keep time on a heart-shaped watch." - Harkat Mulds(The Trials of Death)

I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.

If you think of the history, in the days of Brahms and Beethoven and all these guys, almost every concert was a new music concert. To play something old was really an exception.

i'm alternatingly brilliant and witless-and sleepless: bed is just a swamp to roll in.

The one thing I don't understand is war.

Let temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire.