Happiness is liberty from everything that makes us unhappy.

Don't look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.

It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.

Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.

Everyone must concede that there is in existence something wiser than himself. Now there is a challenge, there is a challenge which few even investigate. We're going to do that now. Let's see what we're talking about. All troubled people, which is all people, must if they are going to be delivered from themselves, must make the concession that there is a force, an entity, a power that is higher than their own present nature.

Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.

Men have the illusion of having a duty to make the world spin properly, which is precisely what makes it wobble.