The only remedy for bad habits is counter habits; all the bad habits that have left their impressions are to be controlled by good habits. Go on doing good, thinking holy thoughts continuously; that is the only way to suppress base impressions.

Always remember that each word, thought, and deed, lays up a store for you and that as the bad thoughts and bad works are ready to spring upon you like tigers, so also there is the inspiring hope that the good thoughts and good deeds are ready with the power of a hundred thousand angels to defend...

The body is made by the thought that lies behind it. The body politic is thus the expression of national thought.

Let positive, strong, helpful thought enter into their(children's) brains from very childhood.

Evil thoughts, looked at materially, are the disease bacilli.

Those who are always down-hearted and dispirited in this life can do no work.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life -- think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

It is thought which is the propelling force in us. Fill the mind with the highest thoughts, hear them day after day, and think them month after month.

Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures.

What would life be without them? It would no...