Character is power.

The liar is no better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I am.

Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.