Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

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

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty.

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages.

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

We must each lead a way of life with self-awareness and compassion, to do as much as we can. Then, whatever happens we will have no regrets.

Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.

Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, nevertheless they give up their lives to that little or nothing. One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it, and then it’s gone. But to surrender what you are, and live without belief - that’s more terrible than dying—more terrible than dying young.

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

All limitations are self-imposed.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

No man can afford to express, through words and acts, that which is not in harmony with his own beliefs, and if he does so, he may pay by the loss of his ability to influence others.

Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Religion is a great force—the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get a man through his own religion and not through yours.