Don't let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.

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.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others, than you can by what others say about him!

No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism… The one absolutely certain way of brining this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

True success, true wealth, does not come out of the barrel of a gun.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Peaces comes from within. Do not seek it without.

I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

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

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

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.

Conceit spoils the finest genius… and the great charm of all power is modesty.

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

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

The same power that rose Christ from the dead, is living inside of you.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.

He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

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

The clearest way in the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.

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

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

I do nothing upon myself, and yet am mine own executioner.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as heroes of imaginary victories; and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that never happened. I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various “party lines.”

The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bond together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.

No matter how outrageous a lie may be, it will be accepted if stated loudly enough and often enough.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.

Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.

Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.