The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.

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.

The hallway felt like time itself, and Patricia Buckingham and I were standing at opposite ends-her looking back on all she'd seen, me wondering what lay ahead.

You are not listening to a word I am saying . . . and I am making the most delightful plans for your future.

Country must confront what he called institutional racism. [We should] create a country which provides economic, social and environmental justice for all.

I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.

Talk not of love: thou never knew'st its force.

The mind, when housed within a healthful body, possesses a glorious sense of power.

Delightful, tragic, gloriously elegiac and riddled with puns-Close to Hugh is just like life, only so much more beautiful for being art.

... Their power to see environments as they really are.

Close your ears to all adverse suggestions. Never mind if people call you a fool and a dreamer. Dream on.

Never live beneath your privileges.