Be an earnest student of yourself. Study your leading desires and tendencies.

It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.

The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring to you increased happiness.

The good thoughts you send out to others will return to you multiplied.

Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life.

Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which to work and play and serve

Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.

There is honor in labor. Work is the medicine of the soul. It is more: it is your very life, without which you would amount to little.

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.

There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is yours is the present.

Keep a definite goal of achievement constantly in view. Realize that work well and worthily done makes life truly worth living.

Life is sometimes sour like lemon, but it always gets sweeter than honey if you introduce the power of positive thinking to your mind.

Best to live lightly unthinkingly.

If the enemy can keep us occupied, we don't present much opposition.

Nobody's going to sell 10 million records by not working hard.

Guitar playing is just something that came to me and is really second nature now.

I approximated the Black Friday experience at home by hurling myself into a wall a number of times and then ordering online.

When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal.

As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.

God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.