To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.

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.

I am sort of an adventurer. I like to explore new places. I don't get to travel as often as I would like but I love it.

There’s no copy-and- paste system in foreign aid.

People are always going to, you know, find something wrong with people who are not the exact same as them. That's just what it is. Black, white, short, tall, religions, whatever. People are bad.

I don't pretend to be a digital savant or even a digital apprentice.

Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster.

[Paradox is] truth standing on its head to gain attention.

If we're going to ban all Muslims, how are we going to get them to be part of a coalition to destroy ISIS?

I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.

Women are all so far Machiavellians that they are never either good or bad by halves; their passions are too strong, and their reason too weak, to do anything with moderation.

If the people allow something to happen, it's the right thing.