By acting as you wish yourself to be, in due course you will become as you act.

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.

I wanted to get the tears out of the way so I could act sensibly.

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

How could she have believed such an artificial life as the theatre was suitable?

[I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines.

The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.

I often say that Bernhard, W.G. Sebald, and Javier Marías are my stylistic holy trinity, prose writers who amaze me with their notation of consciousness and voice.

I can confirm, although I am not certain, that we have very good reason to believe that tomorrow is Monday.

All of my hopes and dreams lie with young women.

Money made me evil, court cases got me stressed Niggaz aimin at my head but I still wear my vest.

I had phenomenal parents. They kept me very grounded, and I lived a normal life.