"As a man thinketh in his heart,..." - Quote by James Allen

“Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he is a creative power, and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which circumstances grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself.”

“As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.”

“A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.”

“Thoughts without words… Can that be?”

“A fact: one picks it up and reads it, and puts it down, and there is an end to it. But an idea! That one may pick up, and reflect upon, and oppose, and expand, and so pass a delightful afternoon altogether.”

“Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.”

“Everybody who is not awake spiritually is totally identified with and run by their thinking mind - the incessant voice in the head.”

“One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud.”

“Look at all the conflict between tribes, nations, and religions. They need their enemies, because they provide the sense of separateness on which their collective egoic identity depends.”