Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

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.

A homely face does not guarantee a homely character. Appearance is the body, character is the spirit, and the soul bears the most vital qualities.

I’m going to drag you down to the basement, kneel at your feet, rip your jeans down and I’m going to make you come so hard with my tongue the whole damn pub will think you’re being murdered.

It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.

If there's the right condition, I always want to express the concept or ideas in a very independent way.

My worrying, for instance, was a scene in which I looked at myself while I had the sensation of being boxed in. I call that worrying, It has happened to me a number of times after that first time.

It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it.

A believer to another believer is like two hands, one washes the other (correcting each other).

I gravitate towards sort of broken characters who try to be better people.

The worst was when my skirt fell down to my ankles, but I had on thick tights underneath.

[A]nti-Semitism was rife in almost all varieties of socialism.