“The outer world of circumstance shapes itself to the inner world of thought.”

The “divinity that shapes our ends” is in ourselves.

Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow all delightful.

Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction.

All evil is corrective and remedial and is therefore not permanent.

When a man makes his thoughts pure, he no longer desires impure food.

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.

The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.

Alexander the Great found the philosopher looking attentively at a pile of human bones. Diogenes explained,I am searching for the bones of your father but cannot distinguish them from those of a slave.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world.

When the devil is called god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldiness.