Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

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.

My own art is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside all rules and demands of society.

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

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

A problem well-put is half-solved.

Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

Esteem to your higher self.

Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

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.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.

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.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

If you cannot be honest with yourself, there is no hope of being honest with anyone else.

We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

No matter how outrageous a lie may be, it will be accepted if stated loudly enough and often enough.