The most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.

The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.

When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.

False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.

One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth.

There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators, seers, sages, saints, shakers, and movers...even if they are uncommon and do not come by the dozen. And yet these very same people can at times be boring, irritating, petulant, selfish, angry, or depressed. To avoid disillusionment with human nature, we must first give up our illusions about it.

We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.