Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

‚Worry‘ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

In Germany, they all thought I was a bit mental, very emotional.

My father was a negative person. He actually taught me to be negative, if that makes any sense. I remember him saying: ‚You know there’s no point in expecting anything good to happen because it won’t.‘ I grew up in such a negative atmosphere.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

The most important 6 inches on the battlefield is between your ears.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and – since there is no other metaphor – also the soul.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I’ll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there’s no pressure.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage – they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor.

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something’s wrong. He’s not right in the brain.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

I couldn’t say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.