If you stumble more than once over the same stump, you have no one to blame but yourself.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.

Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.

Esteem to your higher self.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Just keep in mind: the more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.

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 Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Peaces comes from within. Do not seek it without.