Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.

Most people are just trying to get through the day. Sophisticated people learn how to get from the day.

Some people read so little they have rickets of the mind.

The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don't.

There are two parts to influence: First, influence is powerful; and second, influence is subtle. You wouldn't let someone push you off course, but you might let someone nudge you off course and not even realize it.

The reason why I spend so much money for my journals is to press me to find something valuable to put in them.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.