I think, therefore I am.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

There's no such thing as chance; and what to us seems merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

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

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.

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

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.

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

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

You write in order to change the world…the world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimetre the way people look at reality, then you change it.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.

The whole universe is contained within a single human being—you.

Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.

Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty.

In order to enjoy the inestimable benefits that the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils that it creates.

There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.

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

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.

Conquer yourself rather than the world.

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

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

If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation.

He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

At the center of your being you are the answer. You know who you are, and you know what you want.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

If you want material prosperity, you must first think prosperity thoughts, and then make a habit of doing so, for the thing that keeps most people poor is the sheer habit of poverty thinking.

The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieve the impossible.

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.

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

It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.

You don’t have to depend on any material possessions, they depend on you, you create them, you own the one and only tool of production.

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.