The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

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.

As is typical of this God [of Israel], he calls his people into freedom in the most unlikely place.

We developed a technology called artificial swarm intelligence, which is all about tapping the inherent knowledge, wisdom, intuition of groups.

I was never really obsessed with the whole guy thing to begin with.

I love working with actors, and it's great that I'm an actor myself. I know how I like to be directed and how I like to be talked to.

I don't have to explain anything to anybody.

Throw away sacredness and wisdom and people will be one hundred times happier.

There's no tyrant like a brain.

It is inappropriate for the Bush administration to trump up a case in which we are ballyhooed into war.

The best generals are those who have served in the artillery.

... if you talk to say any of the first 40 or 50 employees, they all feel like they were a part of the founding of the company.