It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.
If you've got it, flaunt it. If you do not, pretend.
If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established.
To believe in God is to yearn for His existence, and furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.
Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen.
If I had a party to attend and didn't want to be there, I would play the part of someone who was having a lovely time.
Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it.
Fake feeling good. ... You're going to have to learn to fake cheerfulness. Believe it or not, eventually that effort will pay off: you'll actually start feeling happier.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.
My center is giving way, my right is in retreat: situation excellent. I am attacking.
If you act like you're rich, you'll get rich.
I'll just hit the dry side of the ball.
My disease is one of the best things that has happened to me; it has pulled me out of a quietly desperate life toward one full of love and hope.
Retreat? We're coming out of here as a Marine division. We're bring ... our dead. Retreat, hell! We're just advancing in another direction.
I'm in a wonderful position: I'm unknown, I'm underrated, and there's nowhere to go but up.
I am dying, but otherwise I am quite well.
