Your place in life is not fixed by heredity.

Gratitude unifies the mind of man with the intelligence of substance, so that man's thoughts are received by the formless.

The purpose of life for man is growth, just as the purpose of life for trees and plants is growth. Trees and plants grow automatically and along fixed lines; man can grow as he will. Trees and plants can only develop certain possibilities and characteristics; man can develop any power which is or has been shown by any person anywhere. Nothing that is possible in spirit is impossible in flesh and blood. Nothing that man can think is impossible. Nothing that man can imagine is impossible of realization.

Only those who do not fill the places they are holding slow the progress of the world

There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought; it is the hardest work in the world

No possible combination of circumstances can keep a man down, if he makes his personal attitude right and determines to rise.

There is not the least cause for worry about financial affairs; every person who wills to do so may rise above want, have all he needs, and become rich.