You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

When the qualities that now confer leadership have become universal, there will no longer be leaders and followers, and democracy will have been realized at last.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has of course powerful muscles but no personality.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

We must always change renew rejuvenate ourselves otherwise we harden.

We know you're strong, but accepting help is its own kind of strength.

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change places with an easy and blessed facility.

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

They are but beggars that can count their worth.

The world is full of injustice, and those who profit by injustice are in a position to administer rewards and punishments. The rewards go to those who invent ingenious justifications for inequality, the punishments to those who try to remedy it.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

The difference between nonfiction and fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.

Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

It is in your own power to maintain the beauty of your soul, or to be a decent human being.

Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to govern us?

Fortune, that arrant whore,Ne'er turns the key to th'poor.

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.

Events circumstances etc. have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.

Education is the development of power and ideal.

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them.

Anywhere we go, we will have our self with us; we cannot escape ourselves.

Acquaintance.A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.