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

Reality doesn't go away when it is ignored.

Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

When an archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's--eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim, improve yourself.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.

Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility of relinquishing it.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.

We are all one family in the world. Building a community that empowers everyone to attain their full potential through each of us respecting each other's dignity, rights and responsibilities makes thee world a better place to live.

I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.

The resources, advantages, and the powers of the American people are very great, and they have, consequently, succeed to equally great responsibilities.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself—and be lenient to everybody else.

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.

A friend is as it were a second self.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages.

Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind.