Past and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized.

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.

Don't play his game. Play yours.

Till your inner garden and your outer landscape will flourish

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty, ' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

Future public education will require involvement and collaboration among various local, civic, private and nonprofit entities, a concept I like to refer to as 'community entrepreneurship.'

We chat about clothes and if we're going on the red carpet we definitely talk about what we are going to wear.

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

I care about the children of Detroit.

I spent 10 years in New York doing theater.

What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over.