Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of what we were before, a setting aside of the old self in favor of a more complex one.

Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants to be.

Since the purpose of business is to satisfy existing desires, or stimulate new ones, if everyone were genuinely happy, there would be no need for business any longer.

For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real.

Discipline is not always internalized and actually can breed resentment among children.

The most important step in emancipating oneself from social controls is the ability to find rewards in the events of each moment.

A person can make himself happy, or miserable, regardless of what is actually happening 'outside,' just by changing the contents of consciousness.