Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Teaching may contribute to certain kinds of learning under certain circumstances.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.