Passion is the great slayer of adversity. Focus on strengths and what you enjoy.

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.

Don't limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded.

The best place to succeed is where you are with what you've got.

One can succeed at almost anything for which he has enthusiasm.

There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone...If I like anything, I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.

We are all salesmen every day of our lives. We are selling our ideas, our plans, our enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact.

Kindness is more powerful than compulsion.

I quickly learned that if I kept at it and plowed right through the rejections I would eventually get somebody to buy my wares.

The man who has done less than his best has done nothing.

I couldn't read. I just scraped by. My solution back then was to read classic comic books because I could figure them out from the context of the pictures. Now I listen to books on tape.

You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now.

What we bloodlessy call 'place' is to young children a wild compound of dream, spell and substance: place is somewhere they are always 'in', never 'on'.

The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.

The object of mathematics is the honor of the human spirit.

His bondage had softened him. Irresponsibility had weakened him. He had forgotten how to shift for himself. The night yawned about him.

Don't dumb down; always write for your top five percent of readers.

The type of work I like is pure and simple and profound.

I grow gnomic. It is the last phase.

You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.

What is love but a second-hand emotion?