If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different 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.

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.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Read to find life treasures

Black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black.

Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.

The weakest man is the one who is able to correct his moral defects, but doesn't take action.

Love is you, you and me. Love is knowing we can be.

Dont chase after the people that hurt you, replace them with people that care.

For me, the lives of children and teens are interesting - they are always changing. There's just so much to sort through. All of this makes for good plots and complex characters.

You won't win if you don't begin.

I forget that he is another person; instead it feels like he is another part of me, just as essential as a heart or an eye or an arm.

Persistent distrust is the flame of deceit. Be as good as your word or be singed by the heat.