The mental pattern must always precede the material form.

The presence of an active, energetic, successful man, or set of men, in a place, will permeate the place with positive vibrations that will stimulate all who abide there.

Study yourself. Find your strong points and make them stronger as well as your weak ones and strengthen them. Study yourself carefully and you will see yourself as you really are.

If you are not satisfied with what is coming to you, start to work and change your mental attitude and mental states, and you will see a change gradually setting in.

Worry is the child of Fear -- if you kill out Fear, Worry will die for want of nourishment.

Put forth the necessary concentrated effort and you will be wonderfully helped form sources unknown to you.

Imagination is the first step in creation whether in words or trifles. The mental pattern must always precede the material form.

The best way to overcome undesirable or negative thoughts and feelings is to cultivate the positive ones.

Thought is a force - a manifestation of energy - having a magnet-like power of attraction.

Prana (life energy) colored by the tought of the sender may be projected to persons at a distance, who are willing to receive it, and the healing can be done this way.

The use of the Will as the projector of Mentative Currents is the real base of all Mental Magic.

He who thinks he knows it all knows very little." ~ Dr. MaryAnn Diorio

Every living object has to change every moment just to live.

Providence has done, and I am persuaded is disposed to do, a great deal for us; but we are not to forget the fable of Jupiter and the countryman.

It's really important in any historical fiction, I think, to anchor the story in its time. And you do that by weaving in those details, by, believe it or not, by the plumbing.

In the year of 1902, when I was about seventeen years old, I happened to invade one of the sections [in New Orleans] where the birth of Jazz originated from.

Coming out of BYU's football spring, 1999, practice: We might have a chance to be pretty good.

The only thing on the mind of a shark is to eat.

What Jennifer Lopez puts out, it's not Latin music.

I can't give a decent toast to save my life.

It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.