One's capacity for friendship, which can be developed, is basic to one's capacity for happiness.

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk — and to act.

Self-esteem is as necessary to the spirit as food is to the body.

To really 'live,' that is to find life reasonably satisfying, you must have an adequate and realistic self-image that you can life with. You must find yourself acceptable to 'you.'

Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.

Self-discipline is the golden key; without it, you cannot be happy.