Society and the World

At the center of non-violence stands the principal of love.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?

A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

The question is not who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me.

The question is not who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in all beings, and all beings in his own self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.

Anybody who believes that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach flunked geography.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Great spirits have always been violently oppressed by mediocre minds.