If you take others for granted, God may do the same thing with you.

Perceptions are often misplaced.

Nobody can make it to the present or the future by clinging to their past.

The word ‘I’ should be a non-entity because it promotes ego.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

Many people are forced to do jobs that they don’t like—just to make both ends meet.

Sometimes we buy things to impress people we may not even know.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

Change in all things is sweet.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Rulers are remembered for their commitment to masses more than anything else.

Well begun is half done.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.