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
To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment. – James Allen
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit. – James Allen
The birds are moulting. If only man could moult also — his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions. – James Allen
The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did. – William Least Heat-Moon