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

We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.

What we call God’s justice is only man’s idea of what he would do if he were God.

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.

All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody – benefiting humanity – and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.

Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.

What people need and what they want may be very different.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

One of the things that gets me up in the morning is knowing that customer expectations are always rising, and I find that very exciting.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.

Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.

Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.

The reality is that if we do nothing it will take 75 years, or for me to be nearly a hundred before women can expect to be paid the same as men for the same work.

Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.