Truth destroys a despot.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.

Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.

The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.

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

If you want the cooperation of humans around you, you must make them feel they are important, and you do that by being genuine and humble.

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.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of everything else to which he is justly entitled.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

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

If you compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.

There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.