Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

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.

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

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.

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.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.

There are only two kinds of people, those who accept dogmas and know it, and those who accept dogmas and don't know it.

Man is a mental being, and to know this is the first step on the road to freedom, for as long as you believe yourself to be primarily physical, you will remain in bondage, that is to say, to your own habits of thought, for there is no other bondage.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.

Unless above himself he can erect himself, how poor a thing is man!

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the small man seeks is in others.