Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

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.

He doesn't know who I am.

Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.

The point of being in a band, for instance, isn't to get big; it's about enjoying playing shows.

What year did Jesus think it was?

It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be?

I think China will do nothing to obstruct it, and they probably will go along with it.

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.

...magic was ugly—-a hard bargain with the universe, a calculus of pain.