The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they are good—or there because they’re lucky.

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

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

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.

Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of everything else to which he is justly entitled.

Benevolence, righteousness, propriety, and knowledge are not infused into us from without.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

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.

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