The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

If you can change your mind, you can change your life.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.

Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.

You have no obligations to your former self, they are dumber than you and they don’t exist.

When your share your story with someone, it becomes their story too.

Nowadays silence is looked on as odd and most of my race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by saying little. Now tongues work all day by themselves with no help from the mind.

We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

I'm very out of style... or I should say I have my own style.

I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about.

Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.

Elmer has the mentality of approximately one peanut.

we love as soon as we learn to distinguish a separate 'you' and 'me.' Love is our attempt to assuage the terror and isolation of that separateness.

I've been singing since I was 8 years old and working in clubs since I was 14. I've been working full time since I was 16.