I've thought about it not a lot but I thought my relationship with Congress - the Democrats and Republicans - would help me get some things done. Not everything but at least they'd be willing to try.

Creatively I thought we were still viable and could do more records. But our working relationship just wasn't happening at all and our chemistry as people broke down because of that.

I couldn't be in a relationship and behave like somebody else or pretend I felt something I didn't feel. And that includes saying things I thought might jeopardize the relationship.

I'd never really thought about it before but now you ask I can see that how my parents handled money definitely affected my relationship with it.

Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows thought itself is in an actual process of movement.

There was at time in my life where all I wanted was a relationship and I thought that was the most important thing.

But the cause for which we fought was higher our thought wider... That thought was our power.

Thoughts have power thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

Liberty according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Except our own thoughts there is nothing absolutely in our power.

I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are you would never think a negative thought.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

To achieve you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.

We found out tonight how important and how crucial momentum swings can be. I thought we were playing very well. We were doing a lot of positive things but then we lost the puck two times in our zone and things swung their way. You can't afford to give teams momentum.

After I became a citizen I felt freer to say what I thought about this country both negative and positive. I think I had been consciously and subconsciously biting my tongue in the past.

Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.

If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere too.

You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others.

You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive constructive optimistic kind.

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones you'll start having positive results.