“Another hidden sacrifice, one of great spiritual beauty and of powerful efficacy in the healing of human sorrows.”

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. The calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

As the reaper of his own harvest, man learns both of suffering and bliss

They themselves are makers of themselves.

Disease and health, like circumstances, are rooted in thought.

Into your hands will be placed the exact results of your own thoughts; you will receive that which you earn; no more, no less.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances but are unwilling to improve themselves.

Until thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment.

Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns. His wishes and prayers are only gratified and answered when they harmonize with his thoughts and actions.

He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: the environment is but a looking glass.

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

Thoughts of malice, envy, disappointment, despondency, rob the body of its health and grace.

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.

Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life.

You will be what you will to be.

Thought is the fount of action, life, and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure.

Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results.

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

You have made some mistakes and you may not be where you want to be, but that has nothing to do with your future.

That is all there is in life – beauty. You find that and you have found everything.

The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective.

You are not your emotions, you have emotions,and you can master them.

I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.

The darkest moments of our lives are not to be buried and forgotten, rather they are a memory to be called upon for inspiration to remind us of the unrelenting human spirit and our capacity to overcome the intolerable.