For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

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.

He shall rule, whom they look not for that dwell upon the earth, and the fowls shall take their flight away together:

Time is a terrible thing because it can erase both joys and pains.

There's no escalators - there's only staircases to success. There is no substitute for hard work.

I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.

It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

They [muslims] are chopping off heads in Syria. Christianity is under siege. I'm Protestant, Presbyterian, and I'm proud of it. Other religions frankly are banding together, we need to band together.

One thing that I'm sure of is the real pleasure of life - it's not being known, it's not having your own jet plane, it's not having a mansion the pleasure is to learn something

You can't play forever.

I think when you're younger you have a more black-and-white view of things. You're more exclusively dedicated.

I do not traditionally speak ill of women, but your governess is a cabbagehead