Self-Control is the very essence of character. To be able to look a man straight in the eye, calmly and deliberately, without the slightest ruffle of temper under extreme provocation, gives a sense of power which nothing else can give. To feel that you are always, not sometimes, master of yourself, gives a dignity and strength to character, buttresses it, supports it on every side, as nothing else can. This is the culmination of thought mastery.

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

There's no grander sight in the world than that of a person fired with a great purpose, dominated by one unwavering aim.

The greatest trouble with most of us is that our demands upon ourselves are so feeble, the call upon the great within of us so weak and intermittent that it makes no impression upon the creative energies; it lacks the force that transmutes desires into realities.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.