“I am not concerned that you have fallen — I am concerned that you arise.”

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Force is all conquering, but it’s victories are short lived.

If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.

Every man’s happiness is his own responsibility.

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

A tendancy to melancholy – let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise.

Freedom and Love arise when you die into the unknown mystery of being.

Have you noticed, with whatever quality of love you have experienced, that when true love arises, it opens up both your mind and emotions? It’s an openness to whatever is happening.

Silence is itself the eternal witness without form or attributes. As you rest more profoundly as the witness, all objects take on their natural functionality, and awareness becomes free of the mind’s compulsive contractions and identifications. It returns to its natural non-state of Presence.

As a result of a kiss, there arises in the mind a wonderful feeling of delight that awakens and binds together the love of them that kiss.

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

It is not lust alone that one should be afraid of in the life of the world. There is also anger. Anger arises when obstacles are placed in the way of desire.