People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work.

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.

Always remember: a brand is the most valuable piece of real estate in the world

You don't have to be ruled by fate. You can choose freedom, and I still believe that that's something worth fighting for.

We teach about how to drive in school, but not how to manage finances.

Once you start a war, you have to win.

Freedom is when one hears the bell at seven o'clock in the morning and knows it is the milkman and not the Gestapo.

The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry.

Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life.

They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time.

I read the script just once, and then forget it.I just deal with what I see every day on the screen and whetherI believe it and understand it.