Man's mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.

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.

No one returns with good will to the place which has done him a mischief.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen — not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.

Appearance rules the world.

The whole universe is contained within a single human being—you.

There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.

Ignorance never settle a question.

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.

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, insofar as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

...the individual ceases to be himself; he adopts entirely the kind of personality offered to him by cultural patterns; and he therefore becomes exactly as all others are and as they expect him to be...The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.

If you can allow yourself to trust those little movements round your gut that tell you when something is interesting or exciting, they will tell you where to go.

Conquer yourself rather than the world.

All limitations are self-imposed.

I do nothing upon myself, and yet am mine own executioner.

Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.

It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.

An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.

The oldest, shortest words - “yes” and “no” - are those which require the most thought.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.