Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.

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.

When what you hear and what you see don't match, trust your eyes.

Actor-manager - one to whom the part is greater than the whole.

There's no greater lifestyle and no greater happiness than that of having a continual conversation with God.

No matter what verbal space you try to enclose Zen in, it resists, and spills over... the Zen attitude is that words and truth are incompatible, or at least that no words can capture truth.

The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.

I'm very comfortable with the fact that there's only one person in charge of the Trump administration. It's President Donald Trump.

Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists.

In my life why do I smile at people I'd rather kick in the eye?

June 16, 1971, mama gave birth to a Hell rasing heavenly son.