Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.

Religion is a great force—the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get a man through his own religion and not through yours.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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?

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.