Power is competence.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

In order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

You don’t need a lot of credentials to be prison guard in a federal prison. And, you know, you give them a set of keys and a weapon, and they’re in power.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

I have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

You make yourself broad. You make yourself appealing. ‚Hey, y’all, I’m cool with everybody.‘ That’s my message.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

I’m not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

My biggest skill is common sense. I understand life.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

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

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

An elusive, enigmatic aura will make people want to know more, drawing them into your circle. Create such a power by hinting at something contradictory within you.