The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.

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.

Faith is the flame that eliminates fear, and faith is the emperor of dreams.

Knowing how to dream is more important than the story, because the story tells itself.

I've always really loved action films, but I don't see myself as a superhero girl.

New York is traditional New York, you know what I'm saying? It's the stomping ground of the hustlers and go-getters

You cannot make men good by law.

Like People, animals will become frightened and likely do whatever you say if you whip them enough.

Daddy gave me real useful information to protect me in the real world. If anyone hits me, I'm not to hit them back. I wait until their back is turned, then hit them in the head with a brick.

It's kind of chased away a few demons for me and, um, it's educated me a little bit more.

My idea of life, it's what happens when they're rolling the credits.

I had never read in public, never given an interview. I was doing it all and trying to produce the next book and raise three young kids and had another child on the way.