Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other persons point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own.

The more I study science the more I believe in God.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

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.

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

Factual evidence can never “prove” a hypothesis; it can only fail to disprove it, which is what we generally mean when we say, somewhat inexactly, that the hypothesis is “confirmed” by experience.

Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.

When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

Ignorance never settle a question.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

The man who has anticipated the coming of troubles takes away their power when they arrive.