Doubt, fear, and hesitation are enemies of the mind, for a weak will severs our inborn connection with the universe, dampens the faith with which we are able to join our will to it.

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.

No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12.

No parent is there forever. So I won't be here forever with these kids.

Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources of knowledge.

My parents are from Ghana. Until I was 17, I thought you had to go to college. I had no idea. I didn't know it was not an option.

You're not a patriot unless even when you lose, it's still your country.

You want to know whether I believe in ghosts? Of course I do not believe in them. If you had known as many of them as I have, you would not believe in them either.

We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.

I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant (but a giant who's a genius on his best days).

What if there are children who will suffer somehow because I failed to obey God? What if my cowardice costs even one child somewhere in the world his or her life?

At the request of my Japanese colleagues, in 2000 we revisited the possibility of signing a peace treaty based on the 1956 agreement.