Vex not thy spirit at the course of things they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.

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.

...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.

Through Sade and Goya, the Western world received the possibility of transcending its reason in violence....

It was a lazy community of mutual disinterest and alcohol.

There's really no reason to rehash something that you've already seen.

I don't think that growing up in the entertainment industry is the healthiest place for kids. The track record kind of shows that.

If you want to change the world, change yourself.

Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.

So, it takes a lot of chance and luck. I mean I was lucky enough to get in the program where people with the same skills never made it to the program. So keep trying.

Sometimes great tunes happen to bad times, and when the bad time is over, not all the tunes get to move on with you.

Never do anything in life if you would be ashamed of seeing it printed on the front page of your hometown newspaper for your friends and family to see.