Understand that you and you alone create your own opportunities, whether they come to you in the form of a lottery ticket, or a promotion, you brought that into your life.

Successful people got to where they did because they did something, and all successful endeavors exist because of those who acted.

Unless you keep focused on your desires through images, repetition and a positive attitude, it will come to nothing.

The sooner you master your mind, the sooner you master yourself.

We are energy, and like all energy, we are in constant change.

If you truly want to help the poor, first become rich yourself.

Once you know what you want, even if you can’t see it, even if you do not know how you will get it, you have to trust that it is there.

Things, events and people align and position themselves accordingly when a strong enough thought stirs them.

Life can only give you what you give back to it, and it all begins with the right attitude.

Simply put, mind power is placing a request, or a wish, if you will, and trusting that somehow it will come to be.

The word "universe" means "one tune" or "one rhythm", and when we are in tune or in rhythm with it, it cannot help but respond.

Which is better: to dare to look directly into the blinding present, no matter how painful, or to await the detachment of hindsight -- which, being less painful, is more objective?

Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself

I find that when my plays are going well, they seem to resemble pieces of music. But if I had to go into specifics about it, I wouldn't be able to. It's merely something that I feel.

I don't know if I'm addicted to fame; fame is more of an unpleasant circumstance of an addiction to creativity.

LIFE IS JUST A SERIES OF MOMENTS.IF YOU MISS THE MOMENTS,YOU MISS YOUR LIFE

California just is so deeply left, particularly coastal. It just is.

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.

If the cartoon were completely accurate, though, life would be a cacophany of spoinks.

Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.

The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.