Nobody can dim the light which shines from within.

Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.

If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough.

A winner never taught me how to quit.

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.

There has never been a shortage of people eager to draw up blueprints for running other people’s lives.

The people turn to a benevolent rule as water flows downwards, and as wild beasts fly to the wilderness.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

A leader who does not take advice is not a leader.

It is of particular value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

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

In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

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

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

Esteem to your higher self.

The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.

Unless above himself he can erect himself, how poor a thing is man!

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.