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.

As I walked out the door to my freedom I knew that, if I did not leave all the anger, hatred and resentment behind, I would remain a prisoner.

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.

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

Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.

I am not remotely interested in just being good.

Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.

Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.

Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

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.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, buy you will never imprison my mind.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

Individuals are the sum of their unique experiences, challenges, and accomplishments. What matters is not the barriers they face, but how they choose to confront them. And their race is not to blame for everything—good or bad—that happens in their lives.

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

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

Fundamentally, there are only to ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion — the technique of the army and the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation — the technique of the marketplace.

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

Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

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

To establish true self-esteem, we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

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

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

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