We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.

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 a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.

We are not trapped by our thoughts. What we generally do, however, is create thoughts that trap us.” (p.162)

AcceptanceThere are things I missthat I shouldn't, and those I don'tthat I should.Sometimes we wantwhat we couldn't—sometimes we lovewho we could.

I suppose you've heard all those wicked stories about me. Well I've lived my life as it came and I've done bloody marvels with a bad hand.

I don't think people realize how much work it takes to make an album.

Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.

In all forms of strategy, it is necessary to maintain the combat stance in everyday life and to make your everyday stance your combat stance.

Aging only happens to people who lose their lust for getting better and disconnect from their natural base of curiosity.

Once you start copying other people's licks, you begin thinking they're yours. Doing that's just an easy way out.