Erase self-doubt by working to build your strengths instead of focusing on your weaknesses.

Take responsibility for your own happiness, do not expect people or things to bring you happiness, or you could be disappointed.

Learn to love someone when they least deserve it, because that is when they need your love most.

Every day, you get the opportunity to change your life. Change what you do not want. Change what makes you unhappy.

Many people are so poor that the only thing they have is money. Cultivate your spiritual growth.

Do not empower your negative thoughts by giving them “legs” so they can run around your mind, creating worries, frustrations, and anxiety in your life.

When you experience a negative circumstance or event, do not dwell on it. Be proactive — put your attention on what you need to do to bring the situation to a positive result.

It may take little time to get where you want to be, but if you pause and think for a moment, you will notice that you are no longer where you were. Do not stop—keep going.

For some people, their fear to lose is greater than their desire to succeed, so they end up doing nothing and their dreams become impossible.

Cultivate an optimistic mind, use your imagination, always consider alternatives, and dare to believe that you can make possible what others think is impossible.

Human strength plus intelligence cannot unlock the door that God is hiding its key.

No one knew how old she was, but she vaguely remembered waving to President Coolidge. She still had all of her marbles, though every one of them was a bit odd and rolled asymmetrically.

The conscience is a right mix of instinct, reason and culture. The conscience itself is not a truth but it has an ability to access the truth. But the very conscience is assembled only by the reason.

For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.

It is not whether you win or lose, but who gets the blame.

I'm not like the Brexiteers. I don't deny that we have to permit immigration and the right of establishment for capital and services.

The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human being from having one.

I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage.

We mapped out the whole movie, and then worked backwards from that to do these shows. It might not be a movie. It might be something else.

May we soon enjoy the fruits of our labor in a peaceful and united Germany.