The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know.

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.

Suffering softens the soul.

When I go home and get off tour, I'd like to have a peace of mind. I like to chill. I don't like everything to be all chaotic like how it is when I step outside, you know?

But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.

No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

There are two types of people ... the scrutinizers and the scrutinized

America's political system is superior to the crony corrupt corrupt capital system in Russia in every way.

Dad could charm a dog off a meat wagon.

Everything has to do with loving and not loving.

Music is structure out of Chaos

Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.