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

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

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

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

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.