“Without frustration you will not discover that you might be able to do something on your own. We grow through conflict.”

Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.

Either push your limits or die.

You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you.

Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.

The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.

Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish.

In building a statue, a sculptor doesn’t keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged.

As you think, so shall you become.

If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow – you are not understanding yourself.

When one has no form, one can be all forms.

Success only means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly.

Be like water making its way through cracks.

One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.

The change is from inner to outer. We start by dissolving our attitude not by altering outer conditions.

Don’t fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.

I did not have to read books to know that the theme of life is conflict and pain.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.

Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there.

Conflict exists strictly as an opportunity to raise our consciousness.