There are some things you can't learn from others. You have to pass through the fire.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions

Believe you can, and you can. Belief is one of the most powerful of all problem dissolvers. When you believe that a difficulty can be overcome, you are more than halfway to victory over it already.

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast." ~

You have a choice everyday... You can choose every morning whether you will be depressed and miserable, or whether you will be happy.

It is in the balancing of your spirituality with your humanity that you will find immeasurable happiness, success, good health, and love.

A new millennium brings with it great changes that will definitely affect the physical realm

Our wishes are endless.

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.

... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.

If you read something bad about yourself and it stings you, I've learned that somewhere that's a judgment I'm holding about myself, so I'll try to work through that.

I am nowhere. You can call me the man in the middle.

I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.

I'm not going to rush anything and scamper around like a mad person and make myself crazy.