The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward.
Every day above ground is a good day.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
For when a ship is floating calmly along, the sailors see its motion mirrored in everything outside, while on the other hand they suppose that they are stationary, together with everything on board.
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.
The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
The universe is wider than our views of it.
The maker who knows his article best would be the best advertising man, if only his interests did not warp his view.
If a thing is useful they call it work, if useless they call it play. One is as hard as the other. One can be just as much a game as the other.
The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
The view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life.
Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it.
The most common mistake in communication is to assume that the other person thinks the way you do.
We see the world, not as it is, but as we are — or, as we are conditioned to see it.
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.
