“My mother understood human nature better and never chided. She knew that a man cannot be saved from his own foolishness or vice by someone else’s efforts or protests, but only by the use of his own will.”

Most certainly, some planets are not inhabited, but others are, and among these there must exist life under all conditions and phases of development.

Perhaps I failed, but I did my best, These masters of mine may do the rest.

As I review the events of my past life I realize how subtle are the influences that shape our destinies.

From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.

When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.

The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore.

Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves.

There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli.

We should begin at the very root from which we spring, we should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.

The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.

My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.

The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.

Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term.

All the great religions contain wise prescriptions relating to the conduct of life, which hold good now as they did when they were promulgated.

The harness of waterfalls is the most economical method known for drawing energy from the sun.

Our entire biological system, the brain, and the Earth itself, work on the same frequencies.

The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you’ve struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.

Anything can happen if you are willing to put in the work and remain open to the possibility. Dreams are realized by effort, determination, passion and staying connected to that sense of who you are.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory.

Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.