The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours.

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.

Friends don't menace friends with giant terrifying swords, okay?

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

Look to yourself for the answer - stop calling your girlfriends and stop calling your mom - you know if it's working or not, you either feel like a goddess or you don't

A man who tells nothing, or who tells all, will equally have nothing told him.

The religion of Big Data sets itself the goal of fulfilling man's unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignores her attainable needs.

I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though

People don't throw your bags out of windows because of lies; they throw them out because of the truth.

Looking at the Bible, it would seem that God is just a more highly evolved human.