Parents sometimes forget that after the child emerges from the utter physical and mental helplessness of infancy, it is becoming more and more an individual.

Our thought is the unseen magnet, ever attracting its correspondence in things seen and tangible.

Keep your mind as much as you can from dwelling on your ailment. Think of strength and power and you will draw it to you. Think of health and you get it.

The man who succeeds must always in mind or imagination live, move, think, and act as if he had gained that success, or he never will gain it.

Every thought of yours is a real thing - a force.

Love is an element which though physically unseen is as real as air or water. It is an acting, living, moving force... it moves in waves and currents like those of the ocean.

There is a supreme power and ruling force which pervades and rules the boundless universe. You are a part of this power

Possibilities and miracles mean the same thing

A mighty, eternal and incomprehensible force pushes us all forward. But while all are so being pushed, many linger and look back. Unconsciously, they oppose this force.

To say a thing 'must be', is the very power that makes it.

Fear is but another name for lack of power to control our minds, or, in other words, to control the kind of thought we think or put out.

The happiest people in the world are those who give happiness to others.

To be Spirit-filled is to be Christ-centered.

When it comes to perfection, the most that we could possibly do is to continuously push closer and closer to it. It is truly something to aim at, just to see how close you could get to it.

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

I'd worked in Clockwork Orange with Stanley Kubrick and since Stanley was such a prestigious director this opened all sorts of doors for me - one of them being Star Wars.

A lot of people can play the piano, but not everyone can be Billy Joel.

Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular.

[on her role as Special Agent Dana Scully on The X-Files (1993)] I am more spontaneous than my character.

Each man creates god in his own image.

At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.