Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

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.

The only thing worse than training employees and losing them is to not train them and keep them.

He'd heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns drinking champagne. This is, of course, absolutely true.

It's great being a journalist, because our office is the world.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.

Although my father is English, I was brought up in Australia.

When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around.

Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them.

I don't know if I was ever looking for this kind of success- it came along as a by-product of concentrating on what I was doing.

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.