A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.

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.

Never ever allow your present predicament to alter your goals in life”.

Sometimes sleep gets to be a serious and complete thing. You stop going to sleep in order that you may be able to get up, but get up in order that you may be able to go back to sleep.

Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.

Despair is part of love.

The referee will now keep track of the time on the field and the shootouts have finally been banned.

Social man lives constantly outside himself.

Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.

Rob Mullins is headed for status as an international celebrity.

Thy only authentic ending is the one provided here: John and Mary die, John and Mary die, John and Mary die.

I love Australia passionately. I love our landscape. It's influenced most of my work, really. Almost everything I've written is about the landscape. Trying to find, the sacred, the spiritual in it.