“There are many whose tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.”

“When you say to yourself, 'I am going to have a pleasant visit or a pleasant journey,' you are literally sending elements and forces ahead of your body that will arrange things to make your visit or journey pleasant....Our thoughts, or in other words, our state of mind, is ever at work 'fixing up' things good or bad in advance.”

“In the spiritual life every person is his or her own discoverer, and you need not grieve if your discoveries are not believed in by others. It is your business to push on find more and increase individual happiness”

“to say a thing 'must be', is the very power that makes it”

“Unreasoning prejudices are bred out of the continual living in the past”

“What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.”

“Babs, for all her power, has yet to catch me at it, this thing I call chasing the smash.”