When your thinking is brilliant, you will be brilliant, but if your thinking is not brilliant you will not be brilliant, no matter how brilliant you may think you are.

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.

Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

Our destiny is not mapped out for us by some exterior power; we map it out for ourselves. What we think and do in the present determines what shall happen to us in the future.

The more grateful you are for everything good that comes into your life, the more closely you place your mind in contact with that power in life that can produce greater good.

The secret of the master mind is found wholly in the use of imagination.

The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.

Be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.

The master mind is the mind that thinks what it wants to think, regardless of what circumstances, environment or associations may suggest.

What we love in others we not only awaken in others, but we develop those very things more or less in ourselves.

The true purpose of the strong is to promote greater strength in the weak, and not to keep the weak in that state where they are at the mercy of the strong.

Never let yourself be swayed by emotions, ' her mother had said. 'Emotions are fleeting. They come and go. But reality stays with you forever.

Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.

I mean, the shoe - there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it's a movement.

Good?” Cam said. “Right?” I took another bite and nodded. “Well, I have a whole ton of them at home.” He stretched as he rolled up his napkin. “Just saying.

Hee must have a long spoone, shall eat with the devill.

Poetry is that which is lost in translation.

The Greater Man upstairs know when it's my time. Right now isn't the time.

The truth is in the details.

Dead fields under a November sky, scattered rose petals brown and turning up at the edges, empty pools scummed with algae, rot, decomposition, dust.

If you want people to understand that you value their contributions and that they are important, the recognition and praise you provide must have meaning that is specific to each individual.