The world is ruled, and the destiny of civilization is established, by the human emotions.

It is in quiet that our best ideas occur to us. Don't make the mistake of believing that by a frantic kind of dashing around you are being your most effective and efficient self. Don't assume that you are wasting time when you take time out for thought.

You can think your way into or out of almost any circumstance, good or bad.

Every person should make it his business to gather new ideas from sources other than the environment in which he daily lives and works. The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.

If you have a strong belief in yourself, in what you are doing and what you want to do, no adversity is too difficult to overcome.

Nothing constructive and worthy of man's efforts ever has or ever will be achieved except by that which comes from a positive mental attitude, based on a definiteness of purpose and activated by a burning desire, and acted upon until the burning desire is elevated to the level of applied faith.

Nothing is more tragic - or more common - than mental inertia.