No man can become the master of anything or anyone until he becomes the master of his own ego.

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.

Films, football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

It is frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. We should set them an example that we wish them to imitate.

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

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.

It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

The true worth is not to be found in man himself, but in the colors and texture that come alive in others.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

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