Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

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.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.

Do not let difficulties overcome your true purpose

This time like all times is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.

The fake republics are goners the monarchies have a fighting chance. That's my conclusion after a short visit to the Middle East and discussions with officials and analysts there.

I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.

I dont have any assistants, I do it all myself, I dont have any secretaries.

All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

The Australian divisions and the New Zealanders had become what they were to remain for the rest of the war the spearhead of the British Army

Nothing renders a nation so despicable as religious despotism.

[If] you don't have any soul and you don't have any talent, jazz is what you should do. ... any fool can do it; all you gotta do is practice.