I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Do not hide your faith and your beliefs under a bushel basket, especially in this world that seems to have gone mad with political correctness.

There are only two kinds of people, those who accept dogmas and know it, and those who accept dogmas and don't know it.

What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best, which I believed then and believe now, is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that, success found me.

Man is a mental being, and to know this is the first step on the road to freedom, for as long as you believe yourself to be primarily physical, you will remain in bondage, that is to say, to your own habits of thought, for there is no other bondage.

Affirmation is an internal positive statement that supports an external outcome.

Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

No man can afford to express, through words and acts, that which is not in harmony with his own beliefs, and if he does so, he may pay by the loss of his ability to influence others.

Historians relate, not so much what is done, as what they would have believed.

Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspire others.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fall, but because each time they fall they never fail to rise again.

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life. . . To seek a total unity is wrong. To give as much meaning to one’s life as possible is right to me.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

What is a man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, everything in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything.

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

On some preference esteem is based; to esteem everything is to esteem nothing.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

The more I study science the more I believe in God.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other persons point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.

Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.

I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even dearth is one of the things that Nature wills.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

Just keep in mind: the more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.

Now if I carry out this oath, and break it not, may I gain forever reputation among all men for my life and for my art; but if I transgress it and forswear myself, may the opposite befall me.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.

Values are related to our emotions, just as we practice physical hygiene to preserve our physical health, we need to observe emotional hygiene to preserve a healthy mind and attitudes.

To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.