To keep any great nation up to a high standard of civilization there must be enough superior characters to hold the balance of power, but the very moment the balance of power gets into the hands of second-rate men and women, a decline of that nation is inevitable.

Never try to compel others to change; leave them free to change naturally and orderly because they want to; and they will want to when they find that your change was worthwhile. To inspire in others a desire to chance for the better is truly noble; but this you can do only by leaving them alone, and becoming more noble yourself.

What you admire in others will develop in yourself. Therefore, to love the ordinary in any one is to become ordinary, while to love the noble and the lofty in all minds is to grow into the likeness of that which is noble and lofty.

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.

The secret of the master mind is found wholly in the use of imagination.

Life becomes the way it is lived; and man may live the way he wants to live when he learns to think what he wants to think.

The real feeling of youth comes when we actually think in the consciousness of youth and give the realization of the now to every thought.