“A basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.”

Promise yourself success at the beginning of each day, and you’ll be surprised how often things will turn out that way.

Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse.

Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.

Medication is of course important but do not conclude that a pill dissolving in your stomach is necessarily more powerful than a healing thought in your mind.

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.

God never made anyone else exactly like you, and he never will again. Thank him for yourself and then for all the rest of his glorious handiwork.

We tend to get what we expect.

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.

The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

Live your life and forget your age.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

I expect the best and with God’s help will attain the best.

A vital part of the happiness formula is self-discipline. Whoever conquers himself knows deep happiness that fills the heart with joy.

Let a series of happy thoughts run through your mind. They will show on your face.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.

If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

ART is domination. It’s making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours.

The business and design of the Royal Society is: To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanic practices, Engines and Inventions by Experiments-(not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysics, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetoric or Logick).

Art is science in the flesh.

Learn how to meditate on paper. Drawing and writing are forms of meditation. Learn how to contemplate works of art. Learn how to pray in the streets or in the country. Know how to meditate not only when you have a book in your hand but when you are waiting for a bus or riding in a train.

Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.