If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage. If you know that you are free, you are free this moment. This is knowledge, knowledge of freedom. Freedom is the goal of all nature.

Just as healing physical pain requires describing it, talking about it, and sometimes getting professional help, we need to do the same thing with emotional pain.

Self is the lord of self, who else could be the lord? With self well subdued, a man finds a lord such as few can find.

To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.