Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed.

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.

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb

Perpetual revolutions in technology can mean the devaluation of fixed capital on an extensive scale.

There's no harmony in most people in a way, and I'm attracted to it, and I think it makes for good storytelling.

As a teenager I studied opera, believe it or not. But I just couldn't catch on to it.

We must never ignore or pass by the prompting of the Spirit to render service to one another.

The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.

In mystical traditions, it is one's own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric. The secret isn't that you're not being told. The secret is that you're not able to hear.

besides the comfort of knowlege, every science is auxiliary to every other.

Tobacco is the plant that converts thoughts into dreams.

I think I have signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?