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

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.

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.

Art is a form of consciousness.

Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.

Ideas come from everything.

In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.