The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated.

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time. [But you must know enough to realise this, lest you focus more on the defeat than finding the lesson you paid for with the defeat. With every defeat and mistake, you have the logical right to get excited about the future when you will understand and be able to apply the lessons and thereby turn defeat and temporary failure into victory and permanent success.]

All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.

If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be.

The great thing is the start - to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - and him for nothing.

A single idea - the sudden flash of a thought - may be worth a million dollars.