When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the lord. Be positive.

Aloha is free.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

I am not remotely interested in just being good.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Man is a universe in little.

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

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

Leaders must understand that some people will inevitably sell out to the evil side. Don't waste your time wondering why; spend your time discovering who.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owning more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.

The less you respond to negative people, the positive your life will become.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be.

He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your integrity.

Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.

Conquer yourself rather than the world.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

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

It is of particular value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.