No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks. – James Allen
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation. – James Allen
Man is manacled only by himself; thought and action are the jailers of Fate. – James Allen
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. – James Allen
But real action is in silent moments. The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts of our choice of a calling, our marriage, our acquisition of an office, and the like, but in a silent thought by the wayside as we walk; in a thought which revises our entire manner of life, and says, – Ralph Waldo Emerson