The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

I am not remotely interested in just being good.

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.

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

The hardest thing to explain is the glaring evident which everybody had decided not to see.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do things, we can accomplish those goals.

I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

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.

When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

Are you one of the flock that follows, or Are you one that shall lead the way?

Our life does not develop as a result of chance, but as a result of causes.

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.

Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the door.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

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.

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.

Aloha is free.

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

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

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