Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

If you can change your mind, you can change your life.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.

Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.

How long does one have to live before one can no longer be fooled by words?

Refuse to worry. Cast your anxiety upon the Lord. He cares for you.

The family story tells, and it was told true, of my great-grandfather who begat eight genius children and bought twelve almost new grand pianos. He left a considerable estate when he died.

Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood.

My character has always been important to me. That was the one thing that I knew, no matter what, I had to hold that strong.

Success is the uncommon application of common knowledge

...part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

The irresolute man flecks from one egg to another, so hatches nothing.

Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.