Very few people are capable of sustained effort, and that's the reason why we have comparatively few outstanding successes.

Your progress depends upon your degree of sustained intensity in a given direction.

With each success your faith in the law will grow stronger, until you reach the point of total conviction. Then you will be invincible.

Your great power lies not on the surface, but deep within your being.

I have no patience for those who say that poverty is a blessing. Poverty is the greatest curse on earth.

Those who take up any subject with an open mind, willing to learn anything that will contribute to their advancement, comfort and happiness, are wise.

Believe me, you can have anything you want-and in abundance-when you learn to tune into the power within, an infinitely greater power than electricity, a power you have had from the beginning.

I am master of my own destiny, and I can make my life anything that I wish it to be.

You cannot attain #‎ mastery by patterning yourself after another or by following custom or tradition. Sheep do that. Masters and leaders never do

There are no limits to your possibilities! Your successes will multiply and increase in proportion to your mastery of the law.

Those who think they know everything will learn nothing.

A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.

Blasphemy is the crime of not taking someone's beliefs as seriously as they do.

I keep moving ahead, as always, knowing deep down inside that I am a good person and that I am worthy of a good life.

Your single not because you are not good enough for one, it's that you're too good for the wrong one.

I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.

Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it's not such a big deal.

I was thinking that I might fly today. Just to disprove all the things you say... please be careful with me, I'm sensitive, and I'd like to stay that way.

Novelists get to direct the perfect films. We get to cast every part. We dress the set exactly as we wish.

In life most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. Bad improvisers block action often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.

What humans do when they're desperate is just an expression of fear. What they do when they feel safe is a better indication of whether or not you can trust them.