What we do in life ripples in eternity.

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.

Where your fear is, there is your task.

Falling in love is better than standing in hate.

Having someone you love say "Thank you" is more rewarding than just having them say "I love you.

The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.

There are lots of secretaries who send off special envoys and yes, say, "Do a great job," and that's fine until it costs you something. And then they cut you off.

The work part of a relationship is keeping it where you want it.

Suiciders are willing to kill innocent life in order to send the projection that this is an impossible mission.

Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.

I like to disappear in the parts I play.

The first thing I had to start with was, you know, we don't have a war. We don't have a depression, we don't have a Cold War.