It is better to have faith in everybody and be deceived occasionally than to mistrust everybody and be deceived almost constantly.

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.

Nature was neither fair nor unfair. Those terms belonged to the world of men.

I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety.

The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.

I studied voice for about two years with an amazing coach, and I never rose above the level of mediocre.

What teenagers are ready to laugh at is the misery of other people.

Maybe I’m old, but to me, ‘going out’ means going out to dinner. It’s about the conversation: someone recognizing your intellect, the charm of flirting, and really speaking to somebody.

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing.

As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.

It's insecure, and it's immature.