The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

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.

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.

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

I admired her choices though I wouldn't have made them.

We do what we like, and we like what we do.

You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.

Obama called on Americans to have more grandchildren. Probably so there's more of them to pay off our debt.

It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it.

If you could avoid all your mistakes, you'd miss everything you learned from them.

I love the idea that somebody is going to compare me to my character or think that I am like my character when they see me. I feel like that is a role that I am willing to fulfill.

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

There is in the body, a current of energy, affection and intelligence, which guides, maintains and energizes the body. Discover that current and stay with it.

Let me just say, as a fellow chick, her hair looked fabulous this morning.