Remind oneself continually of one of those who practiced virtue in days gone by.

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.

As we drove, I imagined we were standing still and the world was coming toward us.

Certain barriers do require a critical mass of action at the right time to overcome the inertia that is greater than incremental change.

A winner has more skills than a loser, " Vor said, "no matter how you define the competition.

The different sorts of madness are innumerable.

It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.

The diver plunges deep to find pearls, and we must accept any labor or hazard to win a soul

Country roads, take me home, to the place I belong

Atheists have an excellent longevity record because we have no place to go after we die, so we take good care of ourselves and our world while we are here.

I think any label is bad... I'm more than a label.

Suburbia is too close to the country to have anything real to do and too close to the city to admit you have nothing real to do.