He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but his looking glass.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.

A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.

Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he is a creative power, and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which circumstances grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

Act is the blossom of thought; and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and biter fruitage of his own husbandry