Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency and frustration.

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.

Let us make the earth peaceful to enjoy the joy and beauty of spring.

Silverstream: You idiot!!! What are you doing in my territory???Graystripe:...Drowning?Silverstream: Can't you do that in your own territory?Graystripe: Ah, but who would rescue me there?

But ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put.

I could still turn back before I pass the last houses and really have to commit to this.

I think it was right to remove Saddam Hussein. I think it was the right decision then and I still think it was right now.

I'm a pretty goofy person. I'm an awkward dancer, for instance, and a terrible singer.

It is curious to look back and realize upon what trivial and apparently coincidental circumstances great events frequently turn as easily and naturally as a door on its hinges.

'Election' is a movie I'd give a leg to cross the director's name out and put mine in.

Everybody can tell you how to do it but they never done it

Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone, But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown.