“The sole and supreme use of suffering is to purify, to burn out all that is useless and impure.”

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.

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

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.

The man who thinks hateful thoughts brings hatred upon himself. The man who thinks loving thoughts is loved.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.

You cannot travel within and stand still without.

As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.

Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it.

Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, “men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned.”

The soul should take care of the body, just as the pilgrim on his way to Makkah takes care of his camel; but if the pilgrim spends his whole time in feeding and adorning his camel, the caravan will leave him behind, and he will perish in the desert.

The dead don’t die. They look on and help.

What is hell? Hell is oneself. Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

Self dedication is a spiritual experience.

The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.

In so far as the soul is a force residing in the body; it has therefore been said that the properties of the soul depend of the condition of the body.