Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

If you can change your mind, you can change your life.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.

Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.

It's the friends you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that matter.

World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.

People are gonna look up to me because I'm young, black, and female.

I feel like I've got it together when things are going well with my family.

The devil is not as black as he is painted.

He has, He reminds us, "graven thee upon the palms of my hands" (1 Nephi 21:16). Considering the incomprehensible cost of the Crucifixion, Christ is not going to turn His back on us now.

President Bush's war on Iraq is viewed broadly in Islamic communities as an attack on Islam, and thus the President has alienated a large part of one fifth of the world's population.

Life had become a reproduction: it was not the real thing.

But separate a man from his car - that's inhuman.

As an artist, it is great to be able to market yourself to people who don't know you, and people who do.