“Nothing external to you has any power over you.”

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

You are constantly invited to be what you are.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

The years teach much the days never know.

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

I like to have space to spread my mind out in.

I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.

I’ve found that there is always some beauty left – in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.

When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.