Affirmation is an internal positive statement that supports an external outcome.

My own art is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside all rules and demands of society.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

The heart's earnest and pure desire is always fulfilled.

The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be.

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, ye heavenly host! Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!

There's no such thing as chance; and what to us seems merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Consensus: the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: 'I stand for consensus?

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.

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

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen — not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best, which I believed then and believe now, is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that, success found me.

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