Your nervous system can't tell real failure from imagined failure.

Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown - but the present is real, and your opportunities are now.

True success and true happiness not only go together but each other enhances the other.

Close scrutiny will show that most of these everyday socalled “crisis situations” are not life-or-death matters at all, but opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.

You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.

It is no exaggeration to say that every human being is hypnotized to some extent either by ideas he has uncritically accepted from others or ideas he has repeated to himself or convinced himself are true. These negative ideas have exactly the same effect upon our behavior as the negative ideas implanted into the mind of a hypnotized subject by a professional hypnotist.

Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.