What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself.

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude toward us.

Success is something you attract by the person you become.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought; and as a wise householder commands his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn to command his desires and to say, with authority, what thoughts he shall admit into the mansion of his soul.

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.

That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones.

How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.

Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world

be careful not to become narrow-minded, or afraid of reading what is well written, quite the contrary, such writings are a source of comfort in life.

It is only right and proper to be moved by the Bible, but present-day reality has so strong a hold over us that even when we try to imagine the past the minor events in our lives immediately wrench us out of our musings, and our own adventures throw us back irrevocably upon our personal feelings—joy, boredom, suffering, anger, or a smile.