The stream of tendency in which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.

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.

Words only make sense when the person who says them means a lot.

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.

If you're in a relationship with someone who does not honor or respect you, I want you to know you are worthy of love. Please reach out for help.

If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.

If you try to give people knowledge, and you haven't trained them in character, based on faith, they will become intellectual reprobates.

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

I think predictability has become the rule and I'm completely the opposite -- I like spectators to be disturbed.

The cocktail party is probably America's greatest contribution to the world of entertaining.

A girlfriend? No thanks, I'd rather play nintendo and build my lego set!