It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you or you perish, that the seed of life in you bestirs itself to provide a new resource.

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.

Everything in God's store is on the bottom shelf...you have to get on your knees to get it.

Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.

There is nothing on earth that you can not have once you have mentally accepted the fact that you can have it.

Think of things not as they are, but as they might be. Don't merely dream- but create.

Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.

Some of God's greatest mercies are in his refusals. He says no in order that he may, in some way we cannot imagine, say yes.

The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and secretive economic and political force in America.

The one that I really call love is when I feel like everything's okay. That state of, it's all right here.

Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.

MOTHER (a word that means the world to me)

In the criminal justice system you see the worst people on their best behavior, unlike the civil system, where the best people behave at their worst.

And yet you see the weakness of external evidence-and outward miracles; they were not sufficient to make true believers, or to make the Israelites believe that Jesus was their promised Messiah.

The truth can only be recalled, never invented.

A man should not so much respect what he eats, as with whom he eats.

I see my path, but I don't know where it leads.