Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.

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.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

This country has gotten seriously off track under the Supreme Court when it went so far as to limit the right of even private citizens to freely express their religious views in public.

There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.

There's a little bit of me in all of the characters I've played. I've never really had the opportunity to play something that's a complete departure from me.

I find drinking really helps.

Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.

Oh, I'm so inadequate. And I love myself!.

Tolstoy was the most gifted writer who ever lived. It's like he stuck a pen in his heart and it didn't even go through his mind on its way to the page.

Children are the only ones who don't want anything of me.

As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles. . . . The best of all leaders is the man who teaches people to lead themselves.