If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Patience is the art of hoping.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Takeyour life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

All thingsat first appear difficult.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Unless aman has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.