Begin where you are. Don't wait for someone else to change things for you. Do it yourself

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.

And I know, too, that recognizing one's mistakes does not erase them.

The creative mind doesn't have to have the whole pattern-it can have just a little piece and be able to envision the whole picture in completion.

That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.

In college, it's very easy to maintain your female friendships because you're in such close proximity all the time.

Every morning I am a beginner.

I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction.

My parents are my backbone. Still are. They're the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

When someone gets a job, it better be clear what they did to get it.

I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.

Death laughs when old women frolic.