Because your heart is so beautiful, everything looks beautiful to you.

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

I am not remotely interested in just being good.

Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the lord. Be positive.

The obstacle in the path becomes that path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

Values are related to our emotions, just as we practice physical hygiene to preserve our physical health, we need to observe emotional hygiene to preserve a healthy mind and attitudes.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.

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

Have to and get to—both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.

What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

The less you respond to negative people, the positive your life will become.

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

One beautiful heart is better than a thousand beautiful faces.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life. . . To seek a total unity is wrong. To give as much meaning to one’s life as possible is right to me.

Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much.

Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.

There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.