We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.