A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.

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

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.

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.

Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.

Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.

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