There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

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.

Bliss and suffering, it seems, always go hand in hand.

The real troubles with living is that living is so banal.

First deal with your own tears; tomorrow do something about acid rain.

Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate.

You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish

I don't want to go into a fridge at an undertaker's. I want you to keep me at home until the funeral. Please can someone sit with me in case I get lonely? I promise not to scare you.

Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.

Paul and I know each other on a lot of different levels that very few people know about.

We book people are always preaching about reading aloud to children, but unless you do, you can't realize how it enriches family life.

I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical.