To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.

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.

You are only limited by your own imagination

Sometimes it takes me days or weeks to get something clear in my head on what I want to do. Everything is in steps. One thing leads to another.

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.

I'd probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.

You seldom come across anything more enjoyable than a happy person.

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

you don't get to make withdrawals from the time bank. Only deposits.

Anyone who is seriously interested in me would usually do a little more homework and realise that the extreme criticisms are almost exclusively ideologically based.

Love is random; fear is inevitable.