When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside can't hurt you.

If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing!

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them, they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will sink out of sight.

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Far better it is to dare might things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they in the gray twilight that knows nor victory nor defeat.

Fear gives intelligence even to fools.

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.

A friend is as it were a second self.

Peaces comes from within. Do not seek it without.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, insofar as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

When there is silence one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

The whole universe is contained within a single human being—you.

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

The clearest way in the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.