The most important conversation you will ever have is with yourself.

The heart's earnest and pure desire is always fulfilled.

Affirmation is an internal positive statement that supports an external outcome.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

There's no such thing as chance; and what to us seems merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

My own art is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside all rules and demands of society.

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarters, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

One of the most pathetic—and dangerous—signs of our times is the growing number of individuals and groups who believe that no one can possibly disagree with them for any honest reason.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special...

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

At the center of your being you are the answer. You know who you are, and you know what you want.

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.

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

Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

Benevolence is man’s mind, and righteousness is man’s path.

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.