One can have no surrender or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.

When a person can't find a deep meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find a better man.

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money but him who does it for love of it.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

The higher you soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

Never cross a man, not afraid to die.

Being aware of a single shortcoming within yourself is far more useful than being aware of a thousand in someone else!

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

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.

A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.

A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.

Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.

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