You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic. If words control you that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.

I rebel; therefore I exist.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism… The one absolutely certain way of brining this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

You are the only person who thinks in your mind. You are the power and authority in your world.

There is only one time that is important—now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.

The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I am.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative, they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility of relinquishing it.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

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.