Take full account of the excellencies which you possess and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them if you had them not.

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.

You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.

If it weren't my life, I wouldn't have believed it. I hated everyone, for they were so phony. I don't give a damn about my bad reputation

Don't Just go to Office and do your Job. Look for Light that can Enlighten your Future.

I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.

I love the short-haired lifestyle.

I want to be anonymous . . . my ambition is to be completely forgotten.

I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years and survived. We brought it back to the streets again.

Humanity, divine limitation; Divinity, human perfection.

Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.

I don't get tired of hearing that somebody liked my work.