We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.

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.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

I always ask myself. Who was it that dyed my heart black, and left a spot for it to grow out from it?

When the river meets the sea, he dies! Because the character of the river is to flow and when the character dies, everything dies!

Those who claim to be closest to God are furthest from Heaven.

He sent the trained dog that is his talent off in search of a fat glorious pheasant, and it brought back the lower half of a Barbie doll.

No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.

There's enough sedative in these darts to bring down a werewolf, which is exactly what we're hunting. Why would we want to bring down an elephant if we're not hunting elephants?

How do you know they're growing up? Well, the bite marks are higher.

The first movie [Grown Ups], people loved it and we felt that there were so many characters and so many good comic situations that there was enough material leftover for us to do a sequel.

Also, I think having a musicality about me, that helps in identifying different things in languages and getting them right.