There are some remedies worse than the disease.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Life does not consist of facts. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

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

There are only two kinds of people, those who accept dogmas and know it, and those who accept dogmas and don't know it.

You must try to observe yourself more and more objectively, to look at everything in yourself as though another person.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.

To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.