Limit time to the present. Meditate upon your last hour.

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.

Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet.

I don't like religion very much. I think it's all about people trying to be very certain about things that are very uncertain.

Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life.

There's no emotion more revolutionary than empathy.

General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out!

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.

If I'm going to feel estranged and alienated and away from home I don't want anyone interrupting it to debate which berries to have in their pancakes.

You don't want to be giving away free-kicks in the penalty area.

Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.

Gods always love the people who make 'em.