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.

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.

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.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

The more desperate you are to reach heaven, the deeper you descend into hell.

A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it's going to work. You can't always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you're needed most.

Thanks to Facebook, I never forget the birthdays of people I don't really know.

Foolishness is indeed painful, and verily so is youth, but more painful by far than either is being obliged in another person's house.

The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.

We will push through health care reform regardless of the views of the American people.

Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.

Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.

Let me die a youngman's death not a clean and in-between- the-sheets, holy-water death.

When it comes to pay raises, Congress always plays the role of Grinch. The bill extends an existing pay freeze for Vice President Joe Biden, specifically, and senior political appointees broadly.