With every pill we have prescribed for us we should also be given a creative prayer, a suggested way to correct our destructive patterns of thought.

Spirituality is natural goodness. God is not a person; God is a presence personified in us. Spirituality is not a thing; it is the atmosphere of God's Presence, goodness, truth, and beauty.

All the power of the universe is with you. Feel it, know it, and then act as though it were true.

I am guided by the same intelligence and inspired by the same imagination which scatters the moon beams across the waves and holds the forces of nature in it's grasp.

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

We are all immersed in the atmosphere of our own thinking, which is the direct result of all we have ever said, thought or done. This decides what is to take place in our lives.

Practically the whole human race is hypnotized because it thinks what somebody else told it to think.

Never limit your view of life by any past experience.

The person who is to succeed will never let his mind dwell on past mistakes. He will forgive the past in his life and in the lives of other people. If he makes a mistake he will at once forgive it.

Too often, our minds are so burdened because of the mistakes we have made that we do not take the time to forgive ourselves and others and start over again.

You can attract only that which you mentally become and feel yourself to be in reality.

Develop flexibility and you will be firm

I’d thought there’d be no winter in the desert, but winter arrived anyway—silently, suddenly.

It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.

Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it.

If you ever go home with somebody and they don't have books in their house, don't sleep with them. I think that's very important.

Very important to celebrate victories, however tiny, I always say.

Technology is basically neutral. It's kind of like a hammer. The hammer doesn't care whether you use it to build a house, or whether a torturer uses it to crush somebody's skull.

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.