“He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and he is richer who is generous with what he has.”

You will fall, remain, or rise with your thoughts, your Vision, your Ideal.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

The act is the blossom of thought, and joy and suffering are its fruits.

So you will be what you will to be.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit.

The price of life is effort; the acme of effort is an accomplishment; the reward of accomplishment is joy.

To desire is to obtain to aspire is to achieve.

A man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth.

Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge, and he who encourages them, who does not slay them, thwarts himself at every step.

There is an unavoidable tendency to become literally the embodiment of that quality upon which one most constantly thinks.

Such is the conscious master, and man can only thus become by discovering within himself the laws of thought; which discovery is totally a matter of application, self-analysis, and experience.

The world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.

Man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.

No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.

Unrest and pain and sorrow are the shadows of life.

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

A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty – he has suffered longer.

I want friends, not admirers. People who respect me for my character and my deeds, not my flattering smile.

You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.

Racism does not have a good track record. It’s been tried out for a long time and you’d think by now we’d want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.

Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

The length of a man’s outspread arms is equal to his height.