True achievement in any sphere of action depends upon real ability, and a strong, deep, whole-souled love.

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.

Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

Our destiny is not mapped out for us by some exterior power; we map it out for ourselves. What we think and do in the present determines what shall happen to us in the future.

The more grateful you are for everything good that comes into your life, the more closely you place your mind in contact with that power in life that can produce greater good.

When your thinking is brilliant, you will be brilliant, but if your thinking is not brilliant you will not be brilliant, no matter how brilliant you may think you are.

The secret of the master mind is found wholly in the use of imagination.

The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.

Be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.

The master mind is the mind that thinks what it wants to think, regardless of what circumstances, environment or associations may suggest.

What we love in others we not only awaken in others, but we develop those very things more or less in ourselves.

In the end, the only thing that really matters is how we treated all living things.

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to

To discover what becomes of men who do not pay debts owed to Ratilla, one must visit the underworld.

... my heart skips a beat. Seriously, like a CD from the public library, it goes ZZebbTTT and skips.

A mantra is like meeting the Buddha or Bodhisattva himself.

The riches of the game are in the thrills, not the money.

Never buy hardcover books. They are designed to sell to those who don't actually read. Along with books, many other things can be read: natural scenery, love, officialdom, business¡­

It's best to start the discipline of generosity when the amounts are small. It's easy to give ten cents out of a dollar; it's a little harder to give a hundred thousand out of a million.

The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity

Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.