Your reality is what you choose to believe.

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.

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

Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.

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

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.

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.

More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.

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

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

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.

But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.

Impossible is just an opinion.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

On some preference esteem is based; to esteem everything is to esteem nothing.

The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I am.

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