You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.
If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
I have seen the best of you, and the worst of you, and I choose both.
