“If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness.”

Don’t lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.

Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you’ll have much to live for.

Let your mind see every detail of your own special version of the very best that life can be.

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage you.

If you so choose, every frustration can help you to be more patient and more persistent.

Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

Look up from what you’re doing and look around for a minute. See what a beautiful world you’re in.

Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.

Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.

Your life is always moving toward something.

Rest when you’re weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.

Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.

If you so choose, each day can be filled with even more joy than the one before. If you so choose, even the most seemingly random events can work in your favor.

Don’t tell me about the pain. Show me the baby.

Thomas Gordon, founder of P.E.T. (Parent Effectiveness Training), observed that when children are behaving in a way that interferes with your ability to meet your needs, shouting direct orders to them doesn’t work very well.

The fundamental difference between the mystery story and the ghost story is the fact that a mystery demands a solution for its effectiveness; a ghost story is necessarily unsolvable; the reader must be willing to accept the fact that nothing is proved.

As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.

Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles can be won without resort to physical strength? Who better than we should know all the power that resides in noncooperation?

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

But there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.

There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour