Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

Esteem to your higher self.

If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your own integrity. If you need a witness, be your own.

You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

If we are to achieve richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

You don't have to be big or well known to be great.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

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

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you. . . If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.

Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.