So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

If you can change your mind, you can change your life.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.

Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.

Bring up the past only if it will help to build the future, otherwise its best to be left to sleep

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.

Inevitably, every part an actor plays contains some of himself.

Love can become overused.

Hair that gleams can send a clear sign that you're young and in your prime, whatever your actual age.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

These days I can't tell what I really feel.

A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion.

If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!