Happiness, however, is not the result of any one single cause. It is the result of many ideal states of being grouped together into one harmonious whole.

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.

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.

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.

Standing in the corridor was a large plastic bin on wheels. He looked inside. Empty tins of dog food. That explained the spaghetti with meat sauce. Oh well, he'd eaten worse.

I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards a more mainland-European model - is one I would feel sympathetic about.

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

America is best described by one word, freedom.

There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day.

I'm currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth!

How many fools does it take to make up a public?

Young Americans must never again be sent to fight and die unless we are prepared to let them win.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.