Every power is subject to another power.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

This is the thing that I was born to do.

I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

Man’s goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.

Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.

...the individual ceases to be himself; he adopts entirely the kind of personality offered to him by cultural patterns; and he therefore becomes exactly as all others are and as they expect him to be...The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.

It is frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.

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

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.

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.

Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.

Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative, they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.