Our beliefs in a rich future life are of little importance unless we coin them into a rich present life.

If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time, not tomorrow or next year.... Today should always be our most wonderful day.

The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are.

The life each of us lives is the life within the limits of our own thinking. To have life more abundant, we must think in limitless terms of abundance.

You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind.

One thing scientists have discovered is that often-praised children become more intelligent than often-blamed ones. There's a creative element in praise.

You cannot add to the peace and good will of the world if you fail to create an atmosphere of harmony and love right where you live and work.

You can get what you desire and in just the measure of that desire.

The best preparation for a better life next year is a full, complete, harmonious, joyous life this year.

No is always a door-closing word; Yes is a door-opening word.

Talking about your grievances merely adds to those grievances. Give recognition only to what you desire.

When you lose yourself in a book the hours grow wings and fly.

Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.

Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be.

You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.

...anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic.

I am calm most of the time.

You conquered the landscape with the soles of shoes, not the tires.

Even a brilliant research scientist can waste his or her efforts, in [Stephan Hawking's] case on theoretically impossible lines of research, if he or she rejects clear evidence pointing to God.

Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.

We all screw up. Everyone makes mistakes. That’s what she did. It was bad judgment, that’s all. You don’t cut off the people you love for mistakes like that.