Happiness is simply a state of mind in which our thinking is pleasant a good share of the time.

If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.

Another cause of confusion, and the resulting feelings of nervousness, hurry, and anxiety, is the absurd habit of trying to do many things at one time.

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

You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.

The greatest cause of ulcers is mountain-climbing over molehills.

You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs.

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Conscious effort inhibits and ‘jams’ the automatic creative mechanism.

What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live - with your self-respect alive and growing.

Forgiveness is a scalpel that removes emotional scars.

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."

To really 'live,' that is to find life reasonably satisfying, you must have an adequate and realistic self-image that you can live with. You must find yourself acceptable to 'you.'

You are not your mistakes. Just because you have done something stupid does not make you stupid.

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

Change your mental imagery, and the feelings will take care of themselves.

Fully 95 percent of our behavior, feeling, and response is habitual.

Successful people are able to rise above crises by relaxing no matter what the external situation. Their belief in themselves, the strength of their self-image is impenetrable armor, which protects them against shattering events.

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

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

When you're not goal-striving, not looking forward, you're not really living.

One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.