Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.

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.

Presence is to meet another person in meditation. Presence is to invite another person in meditation. It is a meeting in love, joy, acceptance, sincerity, truth, silence and oneness.

To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get.

Do remember that one line does nothing; it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.

Choose the best player for every position, and you'll end up not with a strong XI, but with 11 strong 1's.

I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.

He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness.

I am street hip-hop brother. That's my biggest message with that one.

The penny-papers of New York do more to govern this country than the White House at Washington.

The contraction of theological influence has been at once the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.