"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

"Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all."

"Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds."

"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are."

"The art of living is discovering that the mind is a garden where thoughts are the seeds."

"He who understands his own mind is never bewildered by the complexities of the world. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean giving up familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, and relationships that have lost their meaning."

"Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs."