Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

To have done no man a wrong...to walk and live, unseduced, within arm's length of what is not your own, with nothing between your desire and its gratification but the invisible law of rectitude-this is to be a man.

Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Opportunity always looks bigger going than coming.

It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame.