Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

A person's a person, no matter how small.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.

I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.

Cogito ergo sum. (I think; therefore I am.)

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.