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

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.

A man will remain a rag-picker as long as he has only the vision of a rag-picker.

The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring out our possibilities. She will strip us of wealth, humble our pride, humiliate our ambition, let us down from the ladder of fame, will discipline us in a thousand ways, if she can develop a little character. Everything must give way to that. Wealth is nothing, position is nothing, fame is nothing, manhood is everything.

The world makes way for the man with an idea.

It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.