People blame their environment, their education, their opportunities, their luck, for their condition. They are wrong. There is one person to blame — and only one — THEMSELVES.

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.

Everything in God's store is on the bottom shelf...you have to get on your knees to get it.

Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.

There is nothing on earth that you can not have once you have mentally accepted the fact that you can have it.

Think of things not as they are, but as they might be. Don't merely dream- but create.

Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

I see real love as the most fundamental of our innate capacities, never destroyed no matter what we might have gone through or might yet go through.

Statism is an unnatural disaster.

Set your mind first and your body will follow.

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

I belong to this race, and when it is down I belong to a down race; when it is up I belong to a risen race.

We have no control over fate and history, but we can control how we conduct ourselves in this life.

School is a drill for the battle of life. If you fail in the drill you will fail in the battle.

Leadership starts with understanding responsibility, not ability. Leadership is a Stewardship, not a show.

God has no need for our worship. It is we who need to show our gratitude for what we have received.