You must form a clear and definite mental picture of what you want. You cannot transmit an idea unless you have it yourself.

The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.

If you have not consciously made the decision to be rich, excellent, and healthy, then you have unconsciously made the decision to be poor, mediocre, and unhealthy.

The grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectation becomes faith.

All you need is to know what you want, and to want it badly enough so that it will stay in your thoughts.

You are to become a creator, not a competitor; you are going to get what you want, but in such a way that when you get it every other man will have more than he has now.

You already have within you everything you need to turn your dreams into reality.

Act now. There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now.

Become aware of and recognize fully the fact that the Principle of Power within you is God Himself. You must consciously identify yourself with the Highest.

To fix your attention on the best is to surround yourself with the best, and to become the best.

Abandon everything you have outgrown.

But men are funny about their wars, they act as if they own them, and perhaps they do, for I don't think women ever start them.

There’s only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself.

The more you start to love someone, the more you ache when they’re gone, and maybe it’s that middle ground that hurts the most, when you can see them and still not feel like you’re near enough.

Here is an old tradition badly in need of return: You have to earn your way into politics. You should go have a life, build a string of accomplishments, then enter public service....

He's had a lot of chances to care, and he hasn't.

As far as I'm concerned, Scott Kalitta was already a legend, and he'll be one forever because he was a champion on the track and a champion off it.

Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.

Generosity could be as contagious as the zombie plague as long as enough people were willing to be carriers.

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.

My advice for other female directors: don't think of your gender as a handicap. Don't think about it at all. Just tell the best story you can, and don't stop until you do.