Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results … We understand this law in the natural world, and work with it; but few understand it in the mental and moral world—although its operation there is just as simple and undeviating— and they, therefore, do not cooperate with it.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of effort is the measure of the results.