“To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.”

Men must not only know, they must act.

All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins.

No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.

I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.

The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin–the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world.

Ignorance is a cure for nothing.

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.

The kind of sermon which is preached in most colored churches is not today attractive to even fairly intelligent men.

A classic is a book that doesn’t have to be written again.

Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

Herein lies the tragedy of the age: Not that men are poor, – all men know something of poverty. Not that men are wicked, – who is good? Not that men are ignorant, – what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.

The cause of war is preparation for war.

In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no ‘two evils’ exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.

Whiteness is ownership of the earth.

It is the wind and the rain, O God, the cold and the storm that make this earth of yours to blossom and bear its fruit. So in our lives it is storm and stress and hurt and suffering that make real men and women bring the world’s work to its highest perfection.

There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.

Fear is only in duality. Fear is Mind. When you are your Self, there is no fear.

If you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand.

The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.

The forces you are struggling with, that you feel are holding you back – are illusions. They are not real – they never have been. See only the good that you desire in your mind.

Paradigm is a part of the conditioning of the mind, our conditioning thought patterns.

You can have anything you want. You just have to decide what you want and do everything it takes to get it!

The Subconscious mind can not tell the difference between what’s real and what’s imagined.

Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.