Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday provide strength and support today and give us hope for tomorrow. No government no matter how well-intentioned or well-managed can provide what our families provide.

In motivating people you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people I hope by example - and perhaps by excitement by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

The show doesn't drive home a lesson but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.

President Obama stands ready to work with everyone because that's what the American people expect and deserve - not for the short term political advantages but the long term health of our country. We don't spend time trying to figure out what's in the minds of Republicans we try to keep our focus on the American people.

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion jealousy and hatred as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

I visited those friends who'd just had a baby and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house and I burst with happiness. And in their minds they were in this terrible domestic rut.

The mindset of chasing that next #1 record doesn't exist for me anymore. It's more about being a well-rounded entertainer than being a pop artist. Obviously it would be wonderful to have a hit record but I don't base my happiness on that anymore. It's about the accomplishment of a project that satisfies me. I just want to enjoy the ride.

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait and those whose minds feed upon riches recede in general from real happiness in proportion as their stores increase as the moon when she is fullest is farthest from the sun.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Ambition is an idol on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny but to rouse them from lethargy and to aid them to judge for themselves.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.

Truth is always served by great minds even if they fight it.

One of the great things about young people is that they do question that they do care deeply about justice and they they have open minds.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words so lesser minds have a talent of talking much and saying nothing.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary great minds with the ordinary.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.