He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.

When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, butt in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

At the center of your being you are the answer. You know who you are, and you know what you want.

Howsoever you may repair it, a rift is a rift.

Master of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait.

Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

You cannot save people. You can only love them.

What barrier is there that love cannot break?

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

It never ceases to amaze me: We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

He who does not trust enough, will not be trusted.

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live accordingly to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well.