“One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.”

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

He isn’t a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities.

Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.

We always admire the other person more after we’ve tried to do his job.

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.

If people really liked to work, we’d still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.

The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men – the man he is and the man he wants to be.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it’s such a nice change from being young.

Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.

The good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

Beauty and inspiration can be found in any natural place of the earth.

The Dhamma has to be found by looking into your own heart and seeing that which is true and that which is not, that which is balanced and that which is not balanced.

The most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.

And now that I’ve stopped looking, I’ve finally found it. Maybe the door will open for me.

There are many men – such as those often to be found among the Indians – who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.

I felt as if the dam of the Niagra Falls had burst and all sorts of wonderful things started to happen when I found my voice.

To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.

The amazing thing is that I found something so early that I can support myself doing.