Do not merely think that you are great; think that you are great now. Do not think that you will begin to act in a great way at some future time; begin now.

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.

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks on your inner life.

We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.

As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit.

If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.

it is the possibilities which are the most terrible things in life.

A change imposed is a change opposed.

I think that the activism I've become involved with informs and enhances my life in a lot of ways, and definitely career-wise. This record wouldn't exist [without that activism], for one.

If there's one pitch you keep swinging at and keep missing, stop swinging at it.