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.

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?

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.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

Whatever hurt you felt is not an excuse to inflict the same on others.

Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical chic.

The woman who creates and sustains a home, and under whose hands children grow up to be strong and pure men and women, is a creator second only to God.

You see, the problem in life isn't in receiving answers. The problem is in identifying your current questions. Once you get the questions right, the answers always come.

Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered

Sports events do not really exist at all unless there is a certain order and fairness - justice in each event.

You get into an elevator and there's music playing. You hear it, but you're not into it. That is passive.

Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.

I have very little patience for ignorant, incompetent people who don’t care that they’re ignorant and incompetent.

The fact is that Americans are not a thoughtful people; they are too busy to stop and question their values.