We have it within our power to begin the world again.

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them, they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will sink out of sight.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even dearth is one of the things that Nature wills.

Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility of relinquishing it.

There is only one time that is important—now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.

The same power that rose Christ from the dead, is living inside of you.

Conceit spoils the finest genius… and the great charm of all power is modesty.

The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I am.

The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of everything else to which he is justly entitled.

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.

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.

Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

When there is silence one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.

No man is born unto himself alone; who lives unto himself, he lives to none.