If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

Fixedness of purpose is the root of all successful efforts.

He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Do not dwell upon the sins and mistakes of yesterday so exclusively as to have no energy and mind left for living rightly today, and do not think that the sins of yesterday can prevent you from living purely today.

Man, as a spiritual being, cannot be maintained in strength, uprightness, and peace except if he periodically withdraw himself from the outer world of perishable things and reach inwardly towards the abiding and imperishable realities.