The stone that is thrown into the air is none the worse for falling down, and none the better for going up.

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.

I'd like to be better at short, snappy answers.

I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hard-core bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians who were attuned to my performance style and a story to tell.

Chelsea Manning got thirty-five years in prison, while I'm still free.

I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.

What will use more finite resources? That 3rd or 4th child you have or driving a large car? We all need to think about the choices we make

Experience in itself wasn’t enough. The diary was my defense against waking up at the end of my life and realizing I’d missed it.

As an improvising musician, I am not in the music business, I am not in the creativity business; I am in the surrender business.

Anything you want to succeed in, you can do.

Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance.

I think when we engage in language we are engaging in something that is specifically and primally human.