The easiest thing is to react. The second easiest thing is to respond. But the hardest thing is to initiate. – When people ask you to tell them what to do, resist.

Do not personally give any more conscious consideration, either of you, to events that you do not want to happen. Any such concentration, to whatever degree, ties you in with those probabilities, so concentrate upon what you want, and as far as public events are concerned, take it for granted that sometimes even men are wiser than they know.

The only real help is self-help. Anything else is just designed to get you to the point where you can help yourself.

There is no other way to change your physical reality but by changing your thoughts.

If you make a difference, people will gravitate to you. They want to engage, to interact and to get you more involved.

While someone can attempt to shame you, shame must also be accepted to be effective. We can't make you feel shame without your participation.

We happily give up our freedom and our income in exchange for having someone else take responsibility for telling us what to do next.