To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

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.

Joe is never sure whether they're mad or just alarmingly and uncompromisingly incapable of self-delusion.

I do not love the sea. The look of it is disquieting. There is something in the very sound of it that stirs the premonition felt while we listen to noble music we become inexplicably troubled.

It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.

The funniest thing is that all the things every director goes through, I thought I could shortcut, but there was no getting around those issues.

Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavoured and colored and put into cans.

My first shoot was on a rooftop in swimsuits with two plus-size models who were curvy and voluptuous and beautiful, and they taught me so much about being beautiful in any shape or size.

The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.

I'm not much of a beer drinker, you know what I drink? Peach wine coolers.

An aphorism is the last link in a long chain of thought.