People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

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.

If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.