There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.

All of our life is but a mass of small habits - practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.

The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.

The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In a sense the statue stoodthere from eternity. But there were a thousand different ones beside it, and the sculptor alone is to thank for having extricated this one from the rest.

The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind

Religion must be considered vindicated in a certain way from the attacks of her critics.

When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.