Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

Historians relate, not so much what is done, as what they would have believed.

Consensus: the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: 'I stand for consensus?

One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Man is a mental being, and to know this is the first step on the road to freedom, for as long as you believe yourself to be primarily physical, you will remain in bondage, that is to say, to your own habits of thought, for there is no other bondage.

Affirmation is an internal positive statement that supports an external outcome.

Unless you believe you will not understand.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

It was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.