"I got to wear blinders all the time so I won't think sideways or in the past."

"And why did everyone persist in thinking the mute was exactly as they wanted him to be--when most likely it was all a very queer mistake?... In the battling tumult of voices he alone was silent."

"The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination."

"The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow."

"I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely."

"I want - I want - I want - was all that she could think about - but just what this real want was she did not know."

"No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it."

"A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future."

"Those that think must govern those that toil."

"You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam."

"Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes."

"When we build, let us think that we build for ever."

"To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think, to love, to pray, are the things that make men happy."

"Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be to you as its close. Then let everyone of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others; some good strength of knowledge gained for yourself."

"Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another."

"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!"

"There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can."

"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."

"Asking 'who ought to be the boss' is like asking 'who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor."

"You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together."

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it."

"If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere."

"There isn't a person anywhere who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can."

"There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured."