Archived Quotes

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,

whose presence calls forth your best

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

In all my lectures,

I have taught one doctrine,

namely,

the infinitude of the private man.

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery,

it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.

Following the light of the sun,

we left the Old World.

It was the experience of mystery

even if mixed with fear

that engendered religion.

Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men

and things cannot be acquired by

vegetating in one little corner of the earth.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

He has a right to criticize,

who has a heart to help.

The cosmos is within us.

We are made of star stuff.

We are a way for the universe to know itself.

That I am not a member of any Christian church is true;

but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures,

and I have never spoken with

intentional disrespect of religion in general,

or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

To succeed in your mission,

you must have single

minded devotion to your goal.

The intuition of the moral sentiment

is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul.

These laws execute themselves.

They are out of time, out of space,

and not subject to circumstance.

If you’re competitor focused,

you have to wait until

there is a competitor doing something.

Being customer focused allows you to

be more pioneering.

You can fail at what you don’t want,

so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

I'm not into fashion,

but I like design.

I wear the same shoes every day.

In the end,

we create ourselves.

Think left and think right and think low and think high.

Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

You don’t take a photograph,

you make it.