You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing.

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.

Perpetual Optimism is a Force Multiplier.

I don't really have studios. I wander around - around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.

Only good things come from God's hands. He never gives you more than you can bear. Every burden prepares you for eternity.

Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn't matter.

If you cut corners you just keep on going in circles.

They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life.

Sometimes it's hard for me to tell the difference between independent filmmaking and studio filmmaking because all the studios have these little independent satellites. It's interesting.

When a manager openly expresses his faith in an employee's skill, he doesn't just improve mood and motivation; he actually improves their likelihood of succeeding.

I think that clothes should be a shelter like a house or a rug. I think that there is that element of protection and a uniform can be just that.