No one can keep you from living as your nature requires. Nothings can happen to you that is not required by Nature.

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.

The faith that I love the best, says God, is hope.

Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.

I'm a fine artist working in a commercial arena, so that's my cross to bear

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

The information I have about Iran is second hand.

I have no idea what my persona would be. As far as I'm concerned, I'm changing all the time.

Neither facts nor pictures seem to sink into our centers of feeling any more.

Where jargon turns living issues into abstractions, and where jargon ends by competing with jargon, people don't have causes. They only have enemies.