“Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.”

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

If it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

Failure — The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

We work to become, not to acquire.

If you want work well done, select a busy man – the other kind has no time.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.

The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.

I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn’t occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

The curious sterility of utopias comes from the absence within them of any scope for initiative, any room for plurality.

Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.