All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success.

The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities.

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.

The genius keeps all his days the vividness and intensity of interest that a sensitive child feels in his expanding world.

So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

In the long run it makes little difference how cleverly others are deceived; if we are not doing what we are best equipped to do, or doing well what we have undertaken as our personal contribution to the world's work, at least by way of an earnestly followed avocation, there will be a core of unhappiness in our lives which will be more and more difficult to ignore as the years pass.