Poverty is the mother of crime.

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.

If you are willing to work for it, you can obtain whatever you want. Just put in the hard work and watch everything begin to move your way.

If your needs are little, you are rich enough.

It is better to love truly at seventeen than pretend at thirty.

Euler calculated without effort, just as men breathe, as eagles sustain themselves in the air.

'Vegetarian' is a slippery word. I don't eat cheese, I don't eat duck - the point is I'm vegan.

Me personally, I come from very, very humble beginnings - little, small town in Alabama, you know, staying at my granddaddy house. We really didn't have nothing.

However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

Now that I am dead, I know everything.

Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!

Only idiots die for an idea! Life is greater and infinitely more valuable than all the ideas!