The great secret of getting what you want from life is to know whay you want and believe you can have it. Always do something for others, then ask God to help you get at it.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.
He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
Anything sweet, really sweet, that I have was nothing that I planned.
You must have a clear mental picture of the correct thing before you can do it successfully.
Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.
Work is love made visible.
When you're young, there's so much that you can't take in. It's pouring over you like a waterfall. When you're older, it's less intense, but you're able to reach out and drink it. I love being older.
Choose people who lift you up.
LIFE is that existence that is given to man to live for a purpose, to live to his own satisfaction and pleasure, providing he forgets not the God who created him and who expects a spiritual obedience and observation of the moral laws that He has inspired.
To achieve all that is possible, we must attempt the impossible. To be all we can be, we must dream of being more.
All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.
The only thing that made me, or any of us, special was that no one in the whole of history would ever see the universe exactly the same way any other of us saw it.
Seek that your last days be your best days.
The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. See what happens when you "know it all", at any stage of life? Farther down the track you may see clearly how certain personal opinions, held onto too tightly, could be fogging up the view, and providing incorrect insight. Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
Our present world contains clues. . . to another world-a world which we can begin to experience now, but will only know in all its fullness at the end of things.
Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.