Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful.
He was a "how" thinker, not an "if" thinker.
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Some folks think they are thinking when they are only rearranging their prejudices.
How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
What we love, we shall grow to resemble.
How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.
There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.
Skill to do comes of doing.
The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our actions.
Success produces success, just as money produces money.
Once you begin to believe there is help "out there," you will know it to be true.
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
Do what you love, love what you do, and with all your heart give yourself to it.