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

Why not imagine yourself successful?

We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice.

Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.

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.

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

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