There can be no progress, no achievement without sacrifice.

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

The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pitying, all of which are indications of weakness, which lead, just as surely as deliberately planned sins (though by a different route), to failure, unhappiness, and loss, for weakness cannot persist in a power evolving universe.

Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself, with the Law of his being.

The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.