Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.

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

Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to raise it to its true value.

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.

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

Words are a lens to focus one's mind.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

I had long since taught myself to follow the inner voice. I delighted in submitting to it. To act against it would be difficult and painful to me.

We are our choices.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not to waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.

The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand and touch another person. When this is done, I feel contact has been made.

Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.

The higher you soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

If you ask enough people, eventually someone will say yes.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.

A winner never taught me how to quit.

Now if I carry out this oath, and break it not, may I gain forever reputation among all men for my life and for my art; but if I transgress it and forswear myself, may the opposite befall me.

Can’t is the worst word that is written or spoken; Doing more harm here than slander and lies; On it is many a strong spirit broken, And with it many a good purpose dies.

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

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

We can secure other people’s approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

You don't have to be big or well known to be great.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

It never ceases to amaze me: We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.

The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

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

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.

Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably gracious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

The change in motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.

I just want God’s will. And He’s allowed to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promise land . . . So I’m happy tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to allow his vision wherever it takes him.

No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.