Every regret, every mournful thought, takes so much out of your life. It is force used to pile on more misery.

Unreasoning prejudices are bred out of the continual living in the past

To grieve at any loss, be it of friend or property, weakens mind and body. It is no help to the friend grieved for. It is rather an injury; for our sad thought must reach the person, even if passed to another condition of existence, and it is a source of pain to that person.

Faith is power to believe and power to see.

To succeed in any undertaking, any art or any trade or any profession, simply keep it ever persistently fixed in mind as an aim, and then study to make all effort toward it play or recreation. The moment it becomes hard work, we are not advancing.

You may be saying: 'I have failed in life and shall always be a failure.' That is because you are ever looking back, living in your failure and thereby bringing to you more failure. Reverse this attitude of mind; work it the other way and live in future success.

Fear is but another name for lack of power to control our minds, or, in other words, to control the kind of thought we think or put out.