America has become so tense and nervous it has been years since I have seen anyone sleep in church - and that is a sad situation.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions

Believe you can, and you can. Belief is one of the most powerful of all problem dissolvers. When you believe that a difficulty can be overcome, you are more than halfway to victory over it already.

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast." ~

You have a choice everyday... You can choose every morning whether you will be depressed and miserable, or whether you will be happy.

There is a level of positive anger that needed to be alive and to make a head way in this life.

Reach out to the world. Be open. Help others and in doing so help yourself.

Who cares what a writer looks like as long as their words are beautiful?

Jesus came to serve, and He wants you to follow His example.

We know that pumping oil out of the ground does not create many jobs. It does not foster an entrepreneurial spirit, nor does it sharpen critical faculties.

I think kids should be doing pickup or futsal all the time.

The essence of intelligence was to know when, or if, to expose even the heart's deep need for instruction.

The things I really learned, I learned from watching my parents. They take care of business. Always have.

I will persist until I succeed. I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.

Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.