As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves.

We have all been hearing from childhood of such things as love, peace, charity, equality, and universal brotherhood; but they have become to us mere words without meaning, words which we repeat like parrots, and it has become quite natural for us to do so. We cannot help it.

The finer is always the cause, the grosser the effect. So the external world is the effect, the internal the cause.

You yourself are to blame. This weeping and wailing and knocking your heads into corners [against brick walls, as it were] will not do you the least good.

Let a man go down as low as possible; there must come a time when out of sheer desperation he will take an upward curve and will learn to have faith in himself.

The body is subject to the law of growth and decay, what grows must of necessity decay.

Each man must begin where he stands, must learn how to control the things that are nearest to him.