False leaders use fear to gain power.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

No man on earth is truly free. All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

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

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

But what is happiness except for the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

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

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

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.

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.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

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.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

You are the only person who thinks in your mind. You are the power and authority in your world.

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.

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

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

There is only one time that is important—now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.

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