The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

One of my major keys is actually the master keys: God.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

What we live by we die by.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Truth is a pathless land.

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

Our God is a forgiving God.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal’s ‚Pensees‘ and read, ‚I am the great silent spaces between worlds.‘

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

What’s the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life – that is to say, over 35 – there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

Heaven means to be one with God.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

God has entrusted me with myself.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.