The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked.

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh unless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.

I have met men who are habitual liars. They have lied so long that they no longer can distinguish between the truth and a lie. Their sensitivity to sin has been almost completely deadened.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

Action expresses priorities.

Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or good or joy worth having.

How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?

Conquer yourself rather than the world.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it continues the true source of national vigor and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

A friend is as it were a second self.

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.

A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.

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.

Benevolence, righteousness, propriety, and knowledge are not infused into us from without.

When there is silence one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself.

I’m fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I’d like to hear what I have to say. A lot of people don’t like being alone because they truly don’t like themselves, but I love me.