A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.

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.

Oh how I hate people!

The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence.

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

The hardest thing about Berlin is letting it belong to other people.

I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals.

There is religion in everything around us, - a calm and holy religion in the unbreathing things of Nature, which man would do well to imitate.

I firmly believe that when you die you will enter immediately into another life. They who have gone before us are alive in one form of life and we in another.

When you work with David Lynch, you never know where he's going next and that's exciting. He's like a magician pulling out new tricks.

Nobody told me when I became a Democrat that that involved opposition to lower taxes.

Fishing can come as close to doing nothing as anything I can think of.