You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments. Using them up in any self-defeating ways means you've lost them forever.

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

Thinking is a strenuous art — few practice it: and then only at rare times.

Thinking is not a heaven-born thing ... It is a gift men and women make for themselves. It is earned, and it is earned by effort. There is no effort, to my mind, that is comparable to its qualities, that is so taxing to the individual, as to think, to analyze fundamentally.

There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the makeup of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.

Your subconscious mind does not argue with you. It accepts what your conscious mind decrees. If you say, "I can't afford it," your subconscious mind works to make it true. Select a better thought. Decree, "I'll buy it. I accept it in my mind."

A man literally is what he thinks.