Be still like a mountain and flow like a river.

If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing!

When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative, they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.

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.

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

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.

Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real 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.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

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

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

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

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

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.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the small man seeks is in others.

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

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.

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.

Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.