“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.”

My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.

To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions.

Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

To stop war by the perfection of engines of destruction alone, might consume centuries and centuries. Other means must be employed to hasten the end.

If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.

We are all one. Only egos, beliefs, and fears separate us.

All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed – only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one.

A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.

My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made.

Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.

Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences.

Crystals are living beings at the beginning of creation.

I don’t care that they stole my idea. I care that they don’t have any of their own

We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.

Democracy is never a final achievement. It is a call to an untiring effort.

For every disciplined effort, there is a multiple reward.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.