Silence is the best tactic for him who distrusts himself.

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

...the individual ceases to be himself; he adopts entirely the kind of personality offered to him by cultural patterns; and he therefore becomes exactly as all others are and as they expect him to be...The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.

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

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.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

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

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well.

No, I don’t understand my husbands theory of relativity, but I know my husband and I know he can be trusted.

We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

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