No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished.

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.

In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?

Tigana, let my memory ofyou be like a blade in mysoul.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal

People say, 'The government couldn't carry out the September 11th attack, it's too big, they'd get caught!' They DID get caught! They're just counting on you to be dumb and to go along with it.

If suffering were an unavoidable part of our existence, we should try to alleviate it as far as possible in practical, earthly ways.

You know, people come to therapy really for a blessing. Not so much to fix what's broken, but to get what's broken blessed.

One way to learn to do something right is to do something wrong. Failure must teach us, or surely success will not reward us.

If you have to ask then you don't deserve an answer.

Only a fool does not look to explain his mistakes.