The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to raise it to its true value.

I had long since taught myself to follow the inner voice. I delighted in submitting to it. To act against it would be difficult and painful to me.

The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

There's no such thing as chance; and what to us seems merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

Impossible is just an opinion.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

Esteem to your higher self.

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

If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your integrity.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

The true worth is not to be found in man himself, but in the colors and texture that come alive in others.

If you can allow yourself to trust those little movements round your gut that tell you when something is interesting or exciting, they will tell you where to go.

If you compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.

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

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.

I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.

Men should strive to think much and know little.

Some of the worst things in my life never happened.

You don’t have to depend on any material possessions, they depend on you, you create them, you own the one and only tool of production.

Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.