“Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.”

Faith supplies staying power. Anyone can keep going when the going is good, but some extra ingredient is needed to keep you fighting when it seems that everything is against you.

Thoughts and words form your mental image. And since we become what we picture be sure your thoughts and words express prosperity and blessing rather than poverty and defeat.

Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.

If you want a quality, act as if you already have it. If you want to be courageous, act as if you were – and as you act and persevere in acting, so you tend to become.

Stand up to an obstacle. Just stand up to it, that’s all, and don’t give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break, and it won’t be you, it will be the obstacle.

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.

The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing.

Never let any mistake cause you to stop believing in yourself. Learn from it and go on.

Ask for what you want, but be willing to take what God gives you. It may be better than what you asked for.

Have absolutely no sense of guilt about being happy and successful if you operate honestly and with a sense of social responsibility.

Positive thinking is how you think about a problem. Enthusiasm is how you feel about a problem. The two together determine what you do about a problem.

Don’t take tomorrow to bed with you.

One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.

You have a choice everyday, You can choose every morning whether you will be depressed and miserable, or whether you will be happy.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.

Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.

When it comes to swag, there’s no gender involved.

Hate me for who I am, I don’t care. At least I’m not pretending to be someone I’m not.

I stand by every mistake I’ve ever made, so judge away.

The solution to a crisis pregnancy is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother’s values and her attitudes toward life.

My tattoos complement my attitude.