When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable.

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.

A flower teaches us how to love.

A war without a strategy cannot be won. Then it is merely a battle where more lives are lost than necessary.

What's the meaning of goodness if there isn't a little badness to overcome?

I slept little, read a lot, and fell in love frequently.

Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money.

President Kennedy’s assassination, less than two weeks ago, has struck the world dumb. It’s like no one wants to be the first to break the silence. Nothing seems important.

Increasingly, Americans don't own America.

When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.

Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.

Warmblood now a bloodborne death, Will rob your body of it's breath Mark your skin and seal your fate The Underland becomes a plate