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

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." ~

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

...ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselves.

[N]o lie can live forever...

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

Everyone should be comfy during the apocalypse.

The docks were said to be quite tough, but there were pubs you didn't go into if you were a respectable... but um, I never felt a sense of danger in Liverpool.

I came to New York in 1986. My father didn't think it was a good idea. I didn't know how I found it, but I went to Hunter College. I had no money and I couldn't speak English.

I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion.

The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe.

If higher unemployment is the price we have to pay in order to bring inflation down, then it is a price worth paying.

The moment we think we're masters of our crafts is the moment we've lost the hunger to become masters of our crafts.