I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

The most important 6 inches on the battlefield is between your ears.

Only the insecure strive for security.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

Observe all men, thyself most.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Whatever role I play is a positive role; it’s a strong role. Never negative.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you’re not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation!

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

Not being afraid to be wrong – I had to learn how to do that.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It’s a battle you can’t hope to win – it’s a battle that’s going to go on forever. It’s part of the human condition.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what’s been on your mind so you can think about what you’ve been thinking about.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.