By staying focused on what I intend to create, by believing that the universe is all-providing, and by knowing that I’m worthy of the unlimited beneficence of the Source of being, I just keep attracting prosperity to me.

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

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

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

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.

So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant – the digitalis of failure.

I always have confidence, whether I miss four in a row or make four in a row, that the next one’s going in. To a coach, sometimes that might not make sense.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

You’ll see it when you believe it.

Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.

America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

There’s a belief that you’re supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don’t see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

Luck is believing you’re lucky.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‚Not Me,‘ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‚Nature.‘

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.

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

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

You’re going to go through tough times – that’s life. But I say, ‚Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.‘ See the positive in negative events.

Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries later turned out to have great practical benefits.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.