Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions

Believe you can, and you can. Belief is one of the most powerful of all problem dissolvers. When you believe that a difficulty can be overcome, you are more than halfway to victory over it already.

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast." ~

You have a choice everyday... You can choose every morning whether you will be depressed and miserable, or whether you will be happy.

I mind the unmindful, but I mind my own mind too. Mine your mind, and mine the minds of others. Mind.. you are mine!

Insofar as men gain time, ease, independence, or liberty from women's domestic labors, they lack incentive to change.

Don’t confuse the complex with the difficult. Most situations are simple – many are just emotionally difficult to act upon.

The crux and crisis is that man found it natural to worship, even natural to worship unnatural things

One never sees Paris for the first time

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

I get to go to work and FaceTime my friends and family and go, "Hey, I'm just showing you around my spaceship!" It's great to be able to do that. I'm having a ball!

Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry.

If we knock on the door until it opens, not taking no for an answer, our lives will be transformed as we step up into a higher awareness.

Don't listen to the fools who say that pictures of people can be of no consequence, or that painting is dead. There is much to be done.