Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

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.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

And medecine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love: these are what we stay alive for.

I don't believe in raw evil." Noah said, "It doesn't care if you believe in it

Communism, my dear, " I said when I managed to get hold of a bunch of bananas for hers and let them ripen on the windowsill, given her just one each day so they'd last for a while

My inspiration comes from my real life experiences.

A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.

It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.

When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.

If I could live my life over again, there is one thing I would change. I would want to be able to eat less.

Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.