Nothing is worth doing pointlessly.

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.

Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.

I put my phone on airplane mode and it didn't fly Worst. Transformer. Ever.

While we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone.

I know there's a lot of nasty humor directed at celebrities, but my feeling is, in most cases, they deserve it.

Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life.

To me there is nothing more fraught with mystery & terror than a remote Massachusetts farmhouse against a lonely hill. Where else could an outbreak like the Salem witchcraft have occurred?

I always want to be the best at whatever I'm attempting to do.

I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society.

Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth moans with metaphors.

I don't believe in God. ...I hope he doesn't hold that against me.