See yourself reacting to threats, not by running away or evading them, but by meeting them, dealing with them, grappling with them in an aggressive intelligent manner.

If you wait until circumstances justify your thinking pleasant thoughts, you are likely to wait forever.

You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a ‘real’ experience.

One's capacity for friendship, which can be developed, is basic to one's capacity for happiness.

Self-discipline is the golden key; without it, you cannot be happy.

We, whoever we are, must have a daily goal in our lives, no matter how small or great, to make that day mean something.