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.

I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.

Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.