Instinct leads, logic does but follow.

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.

I should like my house to be similar to that of the ocean wind, all quivering with gulls.

Fear runs our lives a lot of the time. You can face it head-on, or you can hide in your bunker.

Beware of the man who denounces psychiatrists; / he is afraid.

The stakes are so high because auditions are make or break. You get the job or you don't. The stakes are about as high as they get, for yourself and your own self-esteem.

More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it.

The rich don't have children; they have heirs.

Healing comes from taking responsibility: to realize that it is you - and no one else - that creates your thoughts, your feelings, and your actions.

Not actively surviving is passively dying.

When I cut my hair, the whole sound changed, my style changed.

No amount of virtuosic skill and choice of subject matter can be a substitute for depth and poetry.