To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.

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.

As awful as he could be, I always knew he loved me in a way no one else ever had.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

Art is not some sort of guideline for understanding. It's a thing unto itself.

There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machinelike. They'll refute this, but I've been around it. I know.

Mysticism is an eclectic mixture of various forms of self-discovery that's primarily experimental.

I no longer knew whether it was raindrops or my own tears that were flowing down my cheeks, and I hated to have to drag along this relic of a sniveling child.

I've cheated myself: there are other things I could have done to fill out the bouquet of my career.

I don't know that I've ever been completely comfortable with anything.

For all that you are and all that you do, and for the many ways you make my heart sing.

You're probably right; he probably needs medication. That's all.