In this book, Napoleon Hill lays out principles for overcoming pain and suffering in life. He talks about the benefits of pain, the benefits of sorrow, the importance of poverty and how to control it, the importance of making the most of every second of your time, maturing through suffering...the nature of change for development. Through these things, a person can create their own miracle. A miracle like the one achieved by Thomas Edison and Henry Ford when they overcame poverty, sorrow, and failure to achieve human glory. When you read the twelve miracles in this book, your outlook on life will change towards many things, such as failure, sorrow, illness, death, poverty, and suffering. You will learn how to benefit from these things when you control your mind in a good way. You will learn how to create your own miracles!