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

Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative, they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

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.

Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility of relinquishing it.

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

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

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.

And God said love your enemy and I obeyed him and loved myself.

It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.

The free flow of conflicting ideas and feelings is critical for creative thinking, for discovering new solutions no one individual would have come to on his own.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you. . . If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.

Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.

Factual evidence can never “prove” a hypothesis; it can only fail to disprove it, which is what we generally mean when we say, somewhat inexactly, that the hypothesis is “confirmed” by experience.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

Understanding a question is half an answer.

It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.