There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.

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.

An artist sees not only the thing, but he also hears its inner voice.

To know a man properly, you must know the shape of his hurt - the specific wound around which his person has been formed like a scab.

When people try to rain on your parade, ...pee on theirs

I'm disappointed that success hasn't been a Himalayan feeling.

My feelings for you shame me into silence.

Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.

Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality... Art is correction, modification of a situation; art is communication, connection... Art is social, self-sufficient, and total.

In Tanzania, it was more than one hundred tribal units which lost their freedom; it was one nation that regained it.

I don't see any easy way of disqualifying people on the basis that they decide not to work.

Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive him of self-respect and you kill his spirit.