Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas, he sees his picture mentally.... If you think of yourself in terms of a painting, what do you see?... Is the picture one you think worth painting?... You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind.

A greater poverty than that caused by lack of money is the poverty of unawareness. Men and women go about the world unaware of the beauty, the goodness, the glories in it. Their souls are poor. It is better to have a poor pocketbook than to suffer from a poor soul.

If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time, not tomorrow or next year.... Today should always be our most wonderful day.

You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind.

It is especially appropriate to say that the greatest command, the most condensed philosophy, the wisest success-achieving advice ever given was given by a man who was crucified. He summed it all up when he said, Love one another. One does not really need to fight for success. One can love one's way to success.

Our beliefs in a rich future life are of little importance unless we coin them into a rich present life.

The best preparation for a better life next year is a full, complete, harmonious, joyous life this year.

Today should always be our most wonderful day.

The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are.

The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are.