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.

... it is a lonely programme. The very virtues you cultivate become walls that inevitably separate you from your kind.... A new danger comes to your soul, and intolerance and impatience with those who are as you have been all but destroy that which you have taken such pains to build up. Not alone are there spiritual barriers between you and the friends that you have, but your business training has made your mind incisive. In the swift rush of business you have no time for small debates and petty dilemmas.

Despising cowardice in others, I wished to prove myself no coward. Believing in the good, the gentle, the beautiful things of life, I addressed myself to the sweet duty of keeping these attributes for my children's sake and my own. And in striving to provide a living for them, I found a success beyond my wildest dreams.

Success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.

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

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.

for the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is safe from invasion.