It is satisfaction to a man to do the proper works of a man.

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.

Those with the least always lose the most in war.

If what you call happiness are the pleasurable feelings that you experience when things are going very well in your life, then you truly don't know what true happiness is.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

As a designer you have to just do whatever you want to do. The second I came to terms with that, it transformed my work.

If I hadn't gone into the theater, I would be a painter.

You get to the point where you decide that you don't want to be a victim anymore and that you're not going to live your life like that.

We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our sorrow, that our love perhaps is our sorrow.

People who are rude to waiters... I don't like that sort of thing. People who take cuts in line... it doesn't fly!

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the naughtiest of them all?