In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.

People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.

What people think, believe, and feel affects how they behave. The natural and extrinsic effects of their actions, in turn, partly determine their thought patterns and affective reactions.

Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.

People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.

People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking.

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them.

Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.

There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life.

The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.

In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul

And now, talking of praying, I realise sadly that there will be little point in praying for you. You are passing now to a region where you will be beyond the reach of the power of prayer.

You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government.

New York critics - I hear when one of them watched "A Star Is Born", he talked back to the screen.

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

I would rather spend one night with Dracula dead than with my husband alive.

I always credit; I never just steal something. I'm very much a product of everything that I've read and seen and heard or listened to.

I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.

When we affirm that philosophy begins with wonder , we are affirming in effect that sentiment is prior to reason .

I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf.