You grow your best thoughts in silence, solitude, and meditation. When you relax and think deeply, you are giving your inmost powers their best opportunity to disclose themselves.

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.

I am a recovering perfectionist, and like all in recovery, I do better some days than others!

Perhaps we meet our heaven at the start and not the end of life.

Laughing at fear is one of the best things you can do. When you are afraid, instead of just plunging into panic, laugh. The fear gets really uptight and leaves.

Throughout my chess career I sought out new challenges, looking for things no one had done before.

When bankers get into business they usually destroy it.

The main idea is to win.

Donald Trump didn't cause chaos. Chaos caused Trump.

Science is a truth that is true no matter what, no matter when and for all time and science as the kind of gospel truth replaces the gospel, which was religion.

Either the conscious intellect is impotent, or is not sufficiently strong, or is not the factor positively connected with altruistic phenomenon generally or their sublime form particularly.

It's an attitude that has to do with curiosity, with wanting to know about things, wanting to be able to influence things, and wanting to be able to influence them in a way that's worthwhile