“Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.”

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.

To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.

The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

They only are wise who know that they know nothing.

Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

Speech is silver, silence is golden.

Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

I think the greatest lesson I have just recently learned is how powerful the mind is, informing our decision making unknowingly.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Spirit seeker is someone who remembers there is a power greater than themselves and who is willing to reconnect with it.

Get naked with your truth, offering the world your greatest gift: your authentic self.

No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.

The more difficult it is to forgive someone the greater the opportunity for spiritual growth.

Great souls suffer in silence.

I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.