There is a limit circumscribed to your time – if you do not use it to clear away your clouds, it will be gone, and you will be gone, and the opportunity will not return

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.

Moments caught in time. Simple memories spread out before me. Timeless reminders of how life goes on, even when it feels as if you cannot.

I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.

An Englishman thinks seated a Frenchman standing an American pacing an Irishman afterward.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.

Always make new mistakes.

A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.

I definitely didn't fit in perfectly to the school system. I was raised with such freedom of speech and thinking.

Revelation is always measured by capacity.

Books are, let's face it, better than everything else.