The brain does not make the man; the man makes the brain.

First, you believe that there is one intelligent substance, from which all things proceed. Second, you believe that this substance gives you everything you desire. And third, you relate yourself to it by a feeling of deep and profound gratitude.

...you can render to God and humanity no greater service than to make the most of yourself.

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

The desire for riches is simply the capacity for a larger life seeking fulfillment; every desire is the effort of an unexpressed possibility come into action.

There is a Law of Gratitude, and it is absolutely necessary that you should observe the law if you are to get the results you seek.

Whatever you habitually think yourself to be, that you are. You must form, now, a greater and better habit; you must form a conception of yourself as a being of limitless power, and habitually think that you are that being. It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.