Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide.

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked.

If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: never lie to yourself.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

I have met men who are habitual liars. They have lied so long that they no longer can distinguish between the truth and a lie. Their sensitivity to sin has been almost completely deadened.

Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

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.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.

Conquer yourself rather than the world.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

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

I had long since taught myself to follow the inner voice. I delighted in submitting to it. To act against it would be difficult and painful to me.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

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.

You are the only person who thinks in your mind. You are the power and authority in your world.

Esteem to your higher self.

All limitations are self-imposed.