The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual you so admire

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the strong go to the gutter.

Do you say that religion is still needed? Then I answer that Work, Study, Health and Love constitute religion. . . . Most formal religions have pronounced the love of man for woman and woman for man an evil thing. . . . They have said that sickness was sent from God. . . . Now we deny it all, and again proclaim that these will bring you all the good there is: Health, Work, Study - Love!

Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.

I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage.