I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, 'Tis all barren!

What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.

Scattered wits take a long time picking up; and often before I had got them well together, they would be dispersed in all directions by one stray thought,

He was a dreamer in such wise, because he was a man who had, deep-rooted in his nature, a belief in all the gentle and good things his life had been without.

She led me to believe we will going fast because her thoughts were going fast.

I have such unmanageable thoughts,' returned his sister, 'that they will wonder.' 'Then

BRAIN: A commodity as scarce as radium and more precious, used to fertilize ideas.

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage — pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically — to say "no" to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger "yes" burning inside.

What you focus on and the way you think will determine the way you live.