W. Clement Stone

Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.

Events tend to recur in cycles.

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

Bondage is… subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Big doors swing on little hinges.

Be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will.

If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

If you weren’t such a great man, you’d be a terrible bore.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

For too long I have silenced my heart, that now, when I give it the opportunity to speak, it no longer remembers its voice. Locked away, it forgot what it’s like to be free; to roam. Imprisoned within loneliness, I fear Stockholm syndrome has developed.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.