Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.

I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

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

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

Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you. . . If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.

The past is memory. The future is imagination. All that exists is now.

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.