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

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.

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.

Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.

I can dream, though - can't I, for myself? Even if you have not the imagination or the soul?

Why kill two birds with one stone? I go for the whole nestI am not satisfied with my work unless someone’s a bloody mess

I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons.

Everything in this world depends upon will.

There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and love to your fellow citizens.

I learned to just show up at the page and write down what I heard. Writing became more like eavesdropping and less like inventing a nuclear bomb.

And wouldn't we be better off if every New Year's, we thought about the things we did right and we resolved to keep doing them, no matter how wacky they were.

I want to believe as many true things and as few false things as possible.

If something great comes off with the potential TV series, I will go straight to an investor this time and put my money in whatever they invest in.

After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.