Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.

Historians relate, not so much what is done, as what they would have believed.

The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

The whole universe is contained within a single human being—you.

The clearest way in the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

Oh, I offended you with my opinion? You should hear the the ones I keep to myself.

A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.

The true worth is not to be found in man himself, but in the colors and texture that come alive in others.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind.

The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieve the impossible.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.