The average person is full of artificial desires, desires that have been suggested by what other people possess or require.

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.

Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

Our destiny is not mapped out for us by some exterior power; we map it out for ourselves. What we think and do in the present determines what shall happen to us in the future.

The more grateful you are for everything good that comes into your life, the more closely you place your mind in contact with that power in life that can produce greater good.

When your thinking is brilliant, you will be brilliant, but if your thinking is not brilliant you will not be brilliant, no matter how brilliant you may think you are.

The secret of the master mind is found wholly in the use of imagination.

The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.

Be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.

The master mind is the mind that thinks what it wants to think, regardless of what circumstances, environment or associations may suggest.

What we love in others we not only awaken in others, but we develop those very things more or less in ourselves.

It may be possible to forget our past but our past is not going to forget us.

Do you know what our suicide rate would be if we didn't have television? Do you know how much happiness I've brought to people who couldn't get out of the house but could watch Love Boat?

Things become complicated if there are enough people to complexify them.

The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak.

The first thing I do when I get there—like all of the players on tour—is apply sunscreen. One of the few hazards of the job is the wear-and-tear our skin takes from the sun.

Without women taking an active role in Afghan society, rebuilding Afghanistan is going to be very difficult.

Jose Vasconcelos, Mexico's great federalist and apologist, has coined a wonderful term, la raza cósmica, "the cosmic race," a new people having not one race but many in their blood.

It's more complicated than that. I know them. They're not evil or cruel. They're not even smart. Hurting them, it's like hurting children.

When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.

Let your love flow out on all living things.