The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

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 it almost always was when I'd been too self-centered to see the truth of the matter, I felt impossibly foolish.

A library at night is full of sounds: the unread books can't stand it any longer and announce their contents, some boasting, some shy, some devious.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

[Brian Hyland autograph] was what got me started on going to concerts, because from then on, I was at every concert for everybody.

Nobody dislikes war more than warriors.

Mindfulness is the direct application of Buddhist teachings to a physical event, a way of doing or accomplishing something, or a way of thinking and viewing something.

I would have hated to been locked into music for the last 20 years and not been able to have a family.

The red carpet doesn't interest me. I think people become all the same; it's like everyone posing from the three-quarter angle in some low-cut, fitted dress; it's all the same.

You can only photograph a fragment of the here and now. The photograph presents the world as object; language, the world as idea.

Nobody drowns by falling in the water...but by staying there.