All of our life is but a mass of small habits - practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.

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.

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.

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.

Dreams grow bigger and bolder every time you nourish them.

Tut, tut! I have often admonished my pupils to count ten before speaking. Were I you, Mr. Philander, I should count at least a thousand, and then maintain a discreet silence.

We are all Divine instruments of God. All we have to do is ask Him which music to play...

You amaze me and its hard for me to turn away and make it not so obvious that I'm looking at you.

If you want to play a game, go to where it's played and find a way to get in. Things happen when you get in the game.

Who knows what crumbling infrastructure lies beneath our sleeping children? Actually, many people do - they pay surveyors to take a look.

Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.

We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.

Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.

I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two. So then that picture is taken and then the next one is waiting somewhere else.