Know that you yourself are a miracle.

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.

Religion is different from everything else because in religion seeking is finding.

It is always necessary to acknowledge creative injuries and grieve them. Otherwise, they become creative scar tissue and block your growth.

Knowing your responsibilities doesn't make you mature but acting up on it does.

It's one of the happy things about a world gone so wrong: your personal freakishness don't stand out so much.

By 1782 [John Adams] had come to feel for [Benjamin] Franklin "no other sentiments than Contempt or Abhorrence."

Every great house is full of haughty servants.

When you grow up on film, people sometimes have difficulties accepting the fact that you are growing up. They always imagine you younger.

The horses are talking ... just listen.

My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate