Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.

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.

When you judge your art with number of likes you get in response to it, you're killing the artist within, and giving rise to an entertainer.

I thought of Shelley in the hospital, how she said sometimes sadness only looked like anger and judgment. Maybe fear did too.

Your computer needn't be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at night.

I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.

The three roles that I have always admired are Valjean, Phantom and Jesus and I've enjoyed them all so much.

My grandfather for example only died twice, once during the war and once in the 1980s.

I'm an Angus King independent.

We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.

The snakes are always against the prohibition of the poisons; and the arms traders, of the arms!

I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service.