It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, ‚tough this and tough that.‘ Then there is this business about ‚gooey.‘ The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.

They’re right to think that about me, because I’m the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

Children are all foreigners.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people’s actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

I love to watch times change!

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

I see the world in black and white, and I don’t like compromising.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

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

People wonder aloud about whether I am an okay mother. That is obviously painful because it’s so important to me. It’s hard to hear that people think I’m not a capable mother and a good person, that they just think I’m nuts.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you’re hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

I don’t really care how the Patriots are perceived, truthfully. I really don’t. I really don’t. Look, if you’re a fan of our team, you root for us, you believe in our team, and you believe in what we’re trying to accomplish. If you’re not a fan of us, you have a different opinion.

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

I don’t think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.

I’m never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

There’s no one thing that is true. They’re all true.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

Little things affect little minds.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.