Take full account of what Excellencies 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.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

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.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Stories exist to entertain and inspire us. They’re merely veils of hope for when we see the ugliness of the world.

He held her hand and shook his head. "They're inside, part of us by now. They are us. Where can we escape?

Our stories always contain average, ordinary people. They are the most unsuspecting victims of all.

Prayer is a many fingeredand kaleidoscopic thing—it foldsand unfolds inside of you. It entersthe many rooms you cannot enter.

Be kind to every body and every body will be kind to you.

Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth

Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.

It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.

I turn now not to the Bible but to Wallace Stevens.

[It] has a lot of things in it that I like, but I think it's way too hard on financing things from immigrants.