Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that setbacks and griefs which endure help us in our march forward.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind.

If you want material prosperity, you must first think prosperity thoughts, and then make a habit of doing so, for the thing that keeps most people poor is the sheer habit of poverty thinking.

The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

Understanding a question is half an answer.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

The world is a comedy to those that think, and a tragedy to those that feel.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.

The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.

Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.

There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.