The key to happiness is having dreams; the key to success is making them come true.

Let your soul expand, let your heart reach out to others in loving and generous warmth, and great and lasting will be your joy, and all prosperity will come to you.

When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.

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

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

Joy comes and fills the self-emptied heart; it abides with the peaceful; its reign is with the pure.

As you cannot have a sweet and wholesome abode unless you admit the air and sunshine freely into your rooms, so a strong body and a bright, happy, or serene countenance can only result from the free admittance into the mind of thoughts of joy and goodwill and serenity.

Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is a mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

He who would be blest, let him scatter blessings.

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

Man is manacled only by himself; thought and action are the jailers of Fate.

The heart that sins must sorrow.

Immortality is here and now, and is not a speculative something beyond the grave. It is a lucid state of consciousness in which the sensations of the body, the varying and unrestful states of mind, and the circumstances and events of life are seen to be of a fleeting and therefore of an illusory character.

You are the thinker of your thoughts and as such you are the maker of yourself and condition. Thought is causal and creative, and appears in your character and life in the form of results. There are no accidents in your life. Both its harmonies and antagonisms are the responsive chords of your thoughts. A man thinks, and his life appears.

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

In a justly ordered
universe, where loss of equipoise would mean total destruction, individual responsibility must be absolute.

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.

Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he is a creative power, and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which circumstances grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself.

There can be no progress, no achievement without sacrifice.