Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

All that is important in this moment is movement. Make the movement vital and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.

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.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

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.

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other persons point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

What is a man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, everything in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything.

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

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.

Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.

The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.