No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

A person who spends more than he earns is a fool

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Desire is the very essence of man.