It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

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.

Bu dağlarda bin kere ölmeden, bir kere dirilemezsin.

We weave together the many skeins of our words, Into poems and stories and books, And the books are made so much more vivacious and colourful, For all the care that is woven in along with the words.

When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree.

Leading in a complex world means recognizing the simple things you can do to make things better.

Writing a story, you understand, is not done by consensus. But we do learn from each other, and we remind ourselves how important this work we're doing is.

I'm a worst-case scenario person. I'm only interested in a story because I kind of go, like a magnet, to the worst thing that can happen.

In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.

It's the periods and the commas that you have to forget about. The words never change, but the intonations change.

I think my heart is in a very good place. And I think this is why I'm achieving what I've been asking to do in the universe for so long.

Rituals are the formulas by which harmony is restored.