To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting and achieving goals.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

The highest goal of music is to connect one's soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.

Keep your mind off the things you don’t want by keeping it on the things you do want.

This is the law: The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. The sword is more important than the shield and skill is more important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental.

How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

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.

Benevolence is man’s mind, and righteousness is man’s path.

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

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

I’m fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I’d like to hear what I have to say. A lot of people don’t like being alone because they truly don’t like themselves, but I love me.

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

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.

The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than others their opinions more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.

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.

No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.

Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to allow his vision wherever it takes him.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

When civil fury first grew high, and men fell out they knew not why.

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.

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

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions but follows religiously the new.

The purpose of Propaganda is to make one set of people forget that other sets of people are human.

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