He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.

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.

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.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Before a man can accomplish anything of an enduring nature in the world, he must first of all acquire some measure of success in the management of his own mind.

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.

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

Being aware of a single shortcoming within yourself is far more useful than being aware of a thousand in someone else!

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.