“The mind is a wonderful servant but a terrible master. If you have become a negative thinker, this is because you have not cared for your mind and taken the time to train it to focus on the good. Winston Churchill said that ‘the price of greatness is responsibility over each of your thoughts.’

“Don’t I already know myself?” “Most people don’t. They have never taken the time to know their strengths, their weaknesses, their hopes, their dreams. The Chinese define image in these terms: there are three mirrors that form a person’s reflection; the first is how you see yourself, the second is how others see you and the third mirror reflects

With one eye fixed on the destination, there is only one left to guide you along the journey.’”

am more than I appear to be, all the world’s strength and power rests inside me.’

Einstein said that ‘imagination is more important than knowledge.’ You must spend some time every day, even if it is just a few minutes, in the practice of creative envisioning. See yourself as you want to be, whether this means serving as a great judge, a great father or a great citizen of your community.”

Worry drains the mind of much of its power and, sooner or later, it injures the soul.”

“Good question. Solitude and quiet connect you to your creative source and releases the limitless intelligence of the universe.

It is as Epictetus said so many years ago: ‘No man is free who is not a master of himself.” ’

Yet look at the toxic waste that most people put into the fertile garden of their minds every single day: the worries and anxieties, the fretting about the past, the brooding over the future and those self-created fears that wreak havoc within your inner world.