Defect in one's limb ruins a man.
Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.
A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a thought-evolved being. For such knowledge necessitates the understanding of others as the result of thought, and as he develops a right understanding, and sees ever more clearly the internal relations of things by the action of cause and effect, he ceases to fuss, fume, worry, and grieve. He remains poised, steadfast, serene.
As a man thinketh in his heart, so shall he be
A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.
Once you sleep on feathers you can't go back to sleeping on the floor.
Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.
The sweetness of life lies in dispensing with formalities.
The great dynamic success of capitalism had given us a powerful weapon in our battle against Communism-money.