Put an end once and for all to this discussion of what a good person should be, and be one.

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.

As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

You cannot win a war outside until you have won the war that you are fighting inside you first.

I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I've been doing.

For me, most comedy scripts fail in the mechanical playing-out of the setup. They'll pay lip service to a moral lesson or a psychological progression.

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

I think no matter what kind of life you have, whether it looks one way to people or another way, you always have moments when you imagine a different life.

I predict that in the years ahead Enron, not Sept. 11, will come to be seen as the greater turning point in U.S. society.

If we start without confidence, we have already lost half the battle and we bury our talents.

What today's business reality makes clear is that brands cannot survive in a society that is failing economically, socially, ethically, and morally.