Not quite. I'm thinking of a queer feeling I sometimes get, a feel that I've got something important to say and the power to say it—only I don't know what it is, and I can't make any use of the power.

Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using—you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?

To change a vocabulary is easy; to change external circumstances or our own ingrained habits is hard and tiresome.

Its not what happens to you. It's what you do with what happens you.

Did you ever feel as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using-you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?

As recently as a week ago, in the Director's office, he had imagined himself courageously resisting, stoically accepting suffering without a word. The Director's threats had actually elated him, made him feel larger than life.

The reality of human behavior is that most people avoid those activities in which they perceive themselves to be failures.

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

When you're in a Slump, you're not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is not easily done.