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

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.

Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.

Is that gallantry I smell, or just stupidity? The two scents are much alike, as I recall.

All hell broke loose.

Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.

My vision had always been that I was gonna be a stage actor and that was it.

There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out.

What could be more interesting than thinking of mysterious happenings, finding the answers to intriguing questions, and making up new worlds?

Better to have an open enemy, than hidden friends.

I was never a man of great ambition I cried too easily I didn't have a head for science Words often failed me While others prayed I only moved my lips

Imitations only better the original.