There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.
You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
A success is anyone who is doing deliberately a pre-determined job, because that's what he decided to do deliberately. But only one out of twenty does that.
You are responsible for how your life turns out, and your attitude shapes that life for better or worse.
Visualization is the human being's vehicle to the future - good, bad, or indifferent. It's strictly in our control.
The person with just one good idea is a thousand times better off than the person with no good ideas.
And you're too nice," he added, above the lap-lap of the water and the patter of sand on the water-lily leaves. "I was relying on you being too jealous to let that demon near the place.
To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them.
Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of the proud, the pride of the humble, the prudence of the wise, and the sense of fools. To speak is to. . . dissipate one's strength; whereas what action demands is concentration. Silence is a necessary preliminary to the ordering of one's thoughts.
And I do further recommend to my fellow-citizens aforesaid, that on that occasion they do reverently humble themselves in the dust, and from thence offer up penitent and fervent prayers and supplications to the great Disposer of events for a return of the inestimable blessings of peace, union, and harmony throughout the land which it has pleased him to assign as a dwelling-place for ourselves and for our posterity throughout all generations.