Men are born for each other's sake, so either teach people or endure them

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.

Happy is he who marries the woman he wants, happier is he who marries the woman he needs, and happiest is he who marries the woman he wants and needs.

There is a difference between being remembered and being caught by the mesh of one's mind.

The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.

The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent.

We need to put the security back in the National Security Agency. We can't have the national surveillance agency.

Strong faith is not an emotion. It's a choice.

When I was writing in Bulgarian, I could hide behind beautiful prose.

One nightingale in an interfluous wood Satiate the hungry dark with melody.

I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.

If you think about racing too much you may just lose it a little bit.