Our acts of voluntary attending, as brief and fitful as they are, are nevertheless momentous and critical, determining us, as they do, to higher or lower destinies.

You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.

Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves.

Truth happens to an idea

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.