Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self.

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.

We, whoever we are, must have a daily goal in our lives, no matter how small or great, to make that day mean something.

This is where you will win the battle - in the playhouse of your mind.

Close scrutiny will show that most of these everyday socalled “crisis situations” are not life-or-death matters at all, but opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.

Skill in any performance whether it be in sports in playing the piano in conversation or in selling merchandise consists not in painfully and consciously thinking out each action as it is performed but in relaxing and letting the job do itself through you. Creative performance is spontaneous and ‘natural’ as opposed to self-conscious and studied.

Fully 95 percent of our behavior, feeling, and response is habitual.