Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.

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.

God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. And, used properly, that combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I’ve ever met.

Creation is scientific.

It is the man who loves reading books who gets to know himself

...no one has ever doubted you would die for those you love ... the question then becomes would you live?

Empowering the individual means empowering the nation. And empowerment is best served through rapid economic growth with rapid social change.

It is true that we may desire much more. But let us use what we have, and God will give us more.

As a philosopher, I'm not obliged to explore every unknown wilderness.

How short our happy days appear! How long the sorrowful!

That's exactly what's exciting for me - the idea of infiltrating the male structure and affecting change from within.

A writer must say yes to life.