Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.
To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.
Happiness is native to the human mind and its physical machine. We think better, perform better, feel better, and are healthier when we are happy.
Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possilble. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs.
Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible.
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.
I'm delighted that gay people want to get married and I say why not! It's nobody's business and I would happily give my blessing.
The control is shifting because of the democratisation of the internet. My industry is very good at building walls to stop people getting in.
Now some people when they sit down to write and nothing special comes, no good ideas, are so frightened that they drink a lot of strong coffee to hurry them up, or smoke packages of cigarettes, or take drugs or get drunk. They do not know that ideas come slowly, and that the more clear, tranquil and unstimulated you are, the slower the ideas come, but the better they are.
If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.