Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a torch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness, you'll upgrade it, you'll fill it with prestige and power.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

They fear love because it creates a world they can't control.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Love means to love that which is unloveable. Otherwise it is no virtue at all.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

I refuse to accept the idea that the “isness” of man’s present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the “oughtness” that forever confronts him.

The clearest way in the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.

Conquer yourself rather than the world.

Esteem to your higher self.

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.

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

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.

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.