A smile costs nothing in money, time, or effort but it is literally true that it can be of supreme importance in ones life.

Whenever you are afraid of something you are worshipping it. Whatever you fear, you bow down to and give it power.

You must not allow yourself to dwell for a single moment on any kind of negative thought.

The story of your life is really the story of the relations between yourself and God.

It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.

The great difference between the two feelings is that love is always creative, and fear is always destructive.

To be afraid is to have more faith in evil than in God.

Look where you are going because you will inevitably go where you are looking.

Most people who have a problem concentrate on the problem. They take it to bed with them and stay awake all night thinking it over. Let go of that problem. Rise above it in consciousness.

You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.

Claim your divine, glorious selfhood. Think it, talk it, live it and it will demonstrate itself in your life.

Do not try to be the best, but never forget to try your best.

Where you see and feel wrongdoing, Divine Mind sees opportunity to restore Wholeness.

The instinct of self-preservation is above all the laws

If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.

When I began writing, it was a cosmic thing: Inspiration! Wham! Short spurts of time when I felt out of touch with reality, temporarily insane and the result: a song!

It's practically my subject, my theme: solitude and community; the weirdness and terrors of solitude: the stifling and consolations of community. Also, the consolations of solitude.

You know, I think people underestimate how miraculous getting a movie made is.

Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.

It's not the elements of our worship that are awesome. It's the object of our worship Who is awesome.

It is because of his brain that he [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.