Trust yourself: every heart vibrates the same iron string.

Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, buy you will never imprison my mind.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

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

How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?

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.

If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation.

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.

When there is silence one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

I could not understand how any man could be so brutalized as to claim the right to dispose of the lives of others, nor how any man could be so lacking in self-esteem as to grant to others the right to dispose of his life.

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.

You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.

We can secure other people’s approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

He who does not trust enough, will not be trusted.

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the assurance of strength, there is strength, and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well.

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live accordingly to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have now seen.