It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.

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.

You are constantly becoming what you have been deserving to be, and if you do not like the scripting, you have all the mens to change it for better.

We all shine on...like the moon and the stars and the sun...we all shine on...come on and on and on...

You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.

I've done a little bit of TV. I'm doing a little mini-series at the moment called 'Scooter.

You cannot be beautiful and hate.

Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle

My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.

Sorrow's child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.

In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.