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

The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognise your own worth.

Mental pictures offer us an opportunity to practice new traits and attitudes, which otherwise we could not do. This is possible because again - your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an actual experience and one that is vividly imagined.

When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "success mechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or "willpower.

Self-esteem is as necessary to the spirit as food is to the body.

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

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