Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works.

To be successful you have to enjoy doing your best while at the same time contributing to something beyond yourself.

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

If an enterprise does not aspire to be the best of its kind, it will attract second-rate employees, and it will be soon forgotten.

To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments. To achieve such autonomy, a person has to learn to provide rewards to herself. She has to develop the ability to find enjoyment and purpose regardless of external circumstances.

Creative individuals are more likely to have not only the strengths of their own gender but those of the other one, too.

Those periods of struggling to overcome challenges are what people find to be the most enjoyable times.