Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.

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.

With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition.

The business of business is business.

I think as a human being, as a mother, as someone who works internationally, I needed desperately to know a man like Louis Zamperini in my life, to know that there is hope.

Today most funding for science comes through government. That means that you have to be known to be sympathetic to conclusions that are acceptable to the political classes.

Beat a man with what he doesn't know.

I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family.

Trapped on a planet of pain and perpetrators That you call 'Earth,' but I call 'Hell's Equator.'

I date this girl for two years-and then the nagging starts: 'I wanna know your name...'

The most miserable prison in the world is the prison we make for ourselves when we refuse to show mercy.

So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.