Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness.

"Where there is a will there is a way," is an old and true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.

The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.

I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want to do, you can do it, if you want it badly enough, and I do believe that. I believe that if I wanted to run a mile is four minutes I could do it. I would have to give up everything else in my life, but I could run a mile in four minutes. I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water and was prepared to give up everything else in life, he could do that

Desires are the pulses of the soul; as physicians judge by the appetite, so may you by desires.

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest.

For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to star, or you will just stay where you are.

Desire creates the power.

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.