The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.

Use the talents God has given you to make the world better for your having been in it.

All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on going - is the man who is there when the good luck comes - and is ready to receive it.

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

Before you put pen to paper, before you ring for your stenographer, decide in your own mind what effect you want to produce on your reader — what feeling you must arouse in him.

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true or false.

The power for happiness, for good, for everything we need of life is within each one of us. The power is there - unlimited power.