Orison Swett Marden

Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.

There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.

When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.