You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

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.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

The church and all Christians need to pray, but without playing an active part, it is impossible to impact the country

Language has an ideological agenda that is apt to be hidden from view.

Complete people gaze into the blue sky above, plunge into the center of the earth below, and run freely in the eight directions without even a change of mood.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

I'm sure I've all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer's 'It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World' as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.

Everything that happens to me can help me along in my Christian life.

When you have fun then you're more interested in learning.

I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them.

I have vague memories, like impressions on glass plates.

Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret.