Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.

No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the Ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, this you will become.

A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.

A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.