Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

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.

It will not say, 'Isn't X beautiful?' Such demands are murderous to beauty.

If you fear God, always put Him first, and seek His will, He will give you the desires of your heart

I've been directing more and more the last few years, I find it an enjoyable challenge.

Don't be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.

You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.

Whatever passes away is too vile to be the price of time, which is itself the price of eternity.

Everybody can relate to being an outsider, having to deal with that, and having to wrestle with how people view them.

There's always a way through things if you work hard enough and look close. It all depends on your level of determination.

For the believer, nothing is impossible. We put limitations on ourselves.

History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television.