I will obey my soul and be true to that within me which is highest.

The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.

If you have not consciously made the decision to be rich, excellent, and healthy, then you have unconsciously made the decision to be poor, mediocre, and unhealthy.

The grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectation becomes faith.

All you need is to know what you want, and to want it badly enough so that it will stay in your thoughts.

You are to become a creator, not a competitor; you are going to get what you want, but in such a way that when you get it every other man will have more than he has now.

You already have within you everything you need to turn your dreams into reality.

Act now. There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now.

Become aware of and recognize fully the fact that the Principle of Power within you is God Himself. You must consciously identify yourself with the Highest.

To fix your attention on the best is to surround yourself with the best, and to become the best.

Abandon everything you have outgrown.

Stop spoiling your God's given beauty with an ugly attitude. It is not in any form or shape attractive. Moreover, being respectful, kind, and humble have never led anyone to a negative life.

Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that.

I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.

He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a plot for weeds.

I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits.

You become the average of the five people you hang out with.

America ain’t three fifths bad.

It would have marked a want of foresight in the convention, which our own experience would have rendered inexcusable.

No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.

There's no faster way or surer way to consolidate power and disenfranchise critics than to operate in secret. So this plays squarely into the promotion of the unitary executive. That's one factor.