“Fear can infect us early in life until eventually it cuts a deep groove of apprehension in all our thinking. To counteract it, let faith, hope and courage enter your thinking. Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet.”

Learn to relax. Your body is precious, as it houses your mind and spirit. Inner peace begins with a relaxed body.

The secret of the law of abundance is this: In order to receive and appreciate the good things of life, you must first give.

Whatever your problem, no matter how difficult, you can release spiritual power sufficient to solve your problem. The secret is–pray and believe.

A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it.

Not every day can be an easy one, nor every day fully happy; but even a day of tough going and difficulty can be a good day.

Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Difficulties must be studied and dealt with, but they must not be magnfied by fear.

What is hope? Hope is wishing for a thing to come true; faith is believing that it will come true.

A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions

Make a mental list of happy thoughts and pass them through your mind several times every day.

If you put off everything till you’re sure of it, you’ll never get anything done.

Expect great things, and great things will come.

Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live them. Have tremendous expectations and believe in them.

Believe you can, and you can. Belief is one of the most powerful of all problem dissolvers. When you believe that a difficulty can be overcome, you are more than halfway to victory over it already.

You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.

Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.

Yeah, the cut throats and the pigs. But who wants all that blood spilled, judge, huh?

And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.

There are probably a few library fines I haven’t paid yet, but I’m a pretty clean-cut guy overall.

It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.

A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.

Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.

I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.

It is a voice that cuts you like a razor, but you can still hear the innocence in it, a claim to purity that soars out of the garbage of her throat, carrying evil harmonies.