So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end...and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.

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.

Learn how to control your emotions and don't let them control you.

What we need is the power to pray.

If his forces are united, separate them.

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

When a man's hand touches the hand of a woman, they both touch the heart of eternity.

I'm forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.

As an immigrant, there's a little part of you that always says, "Well, I'm not a hundred percent American." America is some other little boy or some other place I haven't been to yet.

Drawing is like studying Greek and piano- you can't speak or play in your conscious, which is clumsy. You must get it into your subconscious, which is graceful. But that takes time.

South Africans will kick down a statue of a dead white man but won’t even attempt to slap a live one. Yet they can stone to death a black man simply because he’s a foreigner

The way you treat life, life will treat you back. Make sure you're happy with whatever is going on in your life.