Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.

The inner speech, your thoughts, can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak.

It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived.

Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations.

Do more than you have to do, more than your share, and do it as well as you can.

Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations

There are many things in this unhappy world we cannot alter. We must learn to live with our lot and find peace with ourselves.

When life throws you a curve ball, have a good eye.

That’s the difference between them and us. ‘Them’ view foxes as vermin, and ‘us’ identify with the fox.

Whatever he knows of his weaknesses, Private Mulvaney is wholly ignorant of his strength.

When the conspiracy of lies surrounding me demands of me to silence the one word of truth given to me, that word becomes the one word I wish to utter above all others.

In our solitariness... great depths are sometimes sounded. Truth hideth in company.

Maybe I'm competitive. I just feel like I have this gift that I've been given. It's like, "Someone unwrap it! Here it is!" That drive can't be held down. I have a lot of ambition.

You keep on going if you fail.

I feel the terror of idleness, like a red thirst. Death isn't just an idea.

Life is a series of problems.