When you truly love yourself, you do not accept abusive relationships, because you know you deserve better.

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.

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.

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.

Hope is human natural right but they have to keep it.

Inside every fat man, there's a thin man trying to get out.

All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don't think art should be escapist. That's a waste of time.

There is no longer a Christian mind.

Oh, HONESTLY, don't you two read?

I guess I'm still sort of feisty and a little bit of a tomboy.

I am here to paint you a picture of the world I see

The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst.

Your joy lies within you.

I'm not "filled with my art". I ain't got no art. I've got only a kind of craftsman's skill, and make stories as I make biscuits or embroider underwear or wrap up packages.