“Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.”

There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.

One monster there is in the world, the idle man.

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!

A man lives by believing something.

Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

A man`s ego is just as fragile as a woman`s heart.

This is the voice of your ego. If you listen to it, there will always be someone who seems to be doing better than you.

This is the voice of your ego. If you listen to it, there will always be someone who seems to be doing better than you.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

Show me someone without an ego, and I’ll show you a loser.

The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.

Guys need attention. They need that nourishment, that little stroke of the ego that gets them by every now and then.

Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.