We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.

The average man plays to the gallery of his own self-esteem.

It is a curious fact that of all the illusions that beset mankind none is quite so curious as that tendency to suppose that we are mentally and morally superior to those who differ from us in opinion.

Don't make excuses, make good.

Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.

A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath, who needs a manicure.

There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.