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.

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

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.

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

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