Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.

To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.

There's nothing worse when you have a job, and you read something, and you're like, 'God. How am I possibly going to make this work?'

In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Division of International Finance, it was an article of faith in central banking that secrecy about monetary policy decisions was the best policy: Central banks, as a rule, did not discuss these decisions, let alone their future policy intentions.

Physicians need to be good technicians and know how to prescribe, but for healing to occur they also need to incorporate philosophy and spirituality into their treatment. We need to feel as well as think.

God created a good world that was subjected to futility because of the sinful, treasonous choice of the first human beings.