Humanity is regarded as unfinished, incomplete, imperfect. We have the possibility of completing ourselves, perfecting ourselves, and all that is necessary for this lies in us.

All our theories of improving the world, while we are still asleep, merely intensify the sleep of humanity.

The Work is something living in our hearts and minds. Follow the path, see what changes take place within you, and what light begins to dawn in you.

Everything you do consciously is preserved for you: everything you do mechanically, since you did not do it, is lost.

You have a right not to be negative.

The central conception of Man in the Gospels is that he is an unfinished creation capable of reaching a higher level by a definite evolution which must begin by his own efforts.

I will also tell you a secret. We have to will one another: this is the beginning of conscious love.

It is like the man who became short-sighted and refused to wear glasses, saying there was nothing wrong with him, but that the trouble was that the recent papers were so badly printed.

I believe fear of what we do not know may be the devil's best tool, meant to keep us back from those we long to approach.

Life is Death. Death is Life. Teach the deserving. Teach with passion. Learn always. Assume Nothing.

You wouldn't walk with your underpants stuck in your bottom, you'd adjust them. So don't treat the inconvenience in your life like ill-fitting wandering underpants, adjust it to be comfortable again.

According to an original reading of the Constitution and Declaration, the intrusiveness that is an inevitable part of big government is an offense against its people.

I'd like to be able to travel anywhere in an instant

Words fall short sometimes.

Success is the development of the power with which to get whatever one wants in life without interfering with the rights of others.

Because people have read those things in the newspapers, they think it is true. Ten years ago all these things I have just mentioned would have upset me.

Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.

Up! up! my friend, and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double! Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks! Why all this toil and trouble?