Why should a man have any apprehension about the change and dissolution of all the elements? For it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which is according to nature.

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.

You can only destroy something that I have but you can't destroy something that I am.

Our civilization, such as it is, was shaped by religion, and the men who aspire to public office anyplace in the free world must make obeisance to God or risk immediate opprobrium.

Every man over 40 should have a PSA test each year.

Unless you plan to out-rebound and out-shoot everyone you play, then you better learn to handle the ball.

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

If you don't pick your audience, you're lost because you're not really talking to anybody.

Two are born to cross their paths, their lives, their hearts. If by chance, one turns away, they are they forever lost.

The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan.

If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code.

If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one.