All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears.

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me it's the parts that I do understand.

I think the more stability a person has, the more they can follow esoteric or intellectual pursuits.

America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens.

Find a problem that you can provide a solution to.

I've had good times and bad times. That's me. That's how I am.

You can only photograph a fragment of the here and now. The photograph presents the world as object; language, the world as idea.

I'm really a classicist at heart - with a bit of madness!

The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.

Despair often breeds disease.