“Know that all sins and all evils can be summed up in that one word, weakness. It is weakness that is the motive power in all evil doing; it is weakness that makes men injure others; it is weakness that makes them manifest what they are not in reality. Let them know what they really are.”

Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle.

Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are bound to make the best of everything.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.

There is no end to the power a man can obtain.

Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else.

Real love is love for love’s sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.

If you have knowledge and see a man weak, do not condemn him. Go to his level and help him if you can. He must grow.

When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.

The earth is enjoyed by heroes”- this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.

Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.

Onward, my brave boys – money or no money – men or no men! Have you love? Have you God? Onward and forward to the breach, you are irresistible.

Everything is ended if you forgive and forget.

None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.

Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly.

The great lesson is, that unity is behind all. Call it God, Love, Spirit. Allah, Jehovah – it is the same unity that animates all life from the lowest animal to the noblest man.

Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.

Men are beasts and even beasts don’t behave as they do.

When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.

All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.