Really to succeed, we must give; of our souls to the soulless, of our love to the lonely, of our intelligence to the dull. Business is quite as much a process of giving as it is of getting.

a few hours with Beethoven are more restful than sleep.

Life means opportunity, and the thing men call death is the last wonderful, beautiful adventure.

Work becomes at once a delight and a tyrant. For even when the time comes and you can relax, you hardly know how.

... overconfidence in one's own ability is the root of much evil. Vanity, egoism, is the deadliest of all characteristics. This vanity, combined with extreme ignorance of conditions the knowledge of which is the very A B C of business and of life, produces more shipwrecks and heartaches than any other part of our mental make-up.

Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.

One must eliminate the traditional and cling to the essential.