Jesus made it clear that the most important thing in the world is our relationship to God and to others. When we achieve that, everything good will follow.

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.

You’re wondering whether this is a good idea. Because you’re smart and you see right through me, but you can’t help but want this anyway.

A woman without a degree of decency and delicacy is unsexed.

I've moved into directing as well as acting, and it has taught me never to take casting personally.

If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercises the soul; fasting cleanses both.

We break off obsession by laughing at ourselves, by learning to be funny, by just seeing the joy in life and by having a terrific love for this world.

The biggest lesson I learned in the bar business is to focus on revenues. Dollars, not dimes.

I think every script I read has something that sends me into a state of panic but that usually makes me want to do it.

Nature has no cure for this sort of madness, though I have known a legacy from a rich relative work wonders.

According to [Maxine Hong] Kingston, the prose writer is "a workhorse."

I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar, and I ended up ... making things that I think can change the world.