“We can always choose to perceive things differently. We can focus on what's wrong in our life, or we can focus on what's right.”

Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 61

Source: We Should All Be Feminists

The Impact of Space Activities Upon Society (ESA Br) European Space Agency (2005)

"Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ" in Ensign (May 2009)

Letter to Mrs William Froude, 27 June 1848.

Existentialism and Human Emotions (1957)

Speech to the Conservative Party conference http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2002/oct/07/conservatives2002.conservatives1 (07 October 2002)
Context: How can students and parents plan for the future when they can't rely on the country's examination system to deliver fair results? We reject Labour's "government knows best" approach, but we certainly don't subscribe to a philosophy that lets people sink or swim. We believe that an active government should focus on doing what it can to help people get on with their lives. This is the true measure of a compassionate government.

Speech accepting the John Burroughs Medal (April 1952); also in Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson (1999) edited by Linda Lear, p. 94
Context: Mankind has gone very far into an artificial world of his own creation. He has sought to insulate himself, in his cities of steel and concrete, from the realities of earth and water and the growing seed. Intoxicated with a sense of his own power, he seems to be going farther and farther into more experiments for the destruction of himself and his world.
There is certainly no single remedy for this condition and I am offering no panacea. But it seems reasonable to believe — and I do believe — that the more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.

Source: The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-create Your World Your Way