Love the people with whom fate brings you together

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.

The snow in winter, the flowers in spring. There is no deeper reality.

In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all.

Design has to work. Art does not.

I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.

I didn't fall in love with acting until I did a few films. Now, I couldn't live without it.

One can return to their place of birth, but one cannot go back to your youth.

My plans are perfect, and when I start to carry them out, may God have mercy on Bobby Lee, for I shall have none.

'Hunger' definitely changed my life, in terms of being recognized by filmmakers, since that was very much a filmmakers' film.

The only place I am recognized all the time is in L.A. and otherwise, it's only about once a day. I feel pretty anonymous.

The Democrat Party makes as many people victims as possible because it freezes them right where they are. And that's usually in lower middle class or abject poverty. It makes them resentful.