To fix your attention on the best is to surround yourself with the best, and to become the best.

Do every common act as a god should do it; speak every word as a god should speak it.

Get rid of the idea that God wants you to sacrifice yourself for others, and that you can secure his favor by doing so; God requires nothing of the kind from you. What He wants is that you should make the most of yourself, for yourself, and for others; and you can help others more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Do not believe that any one can know, better than yourself, what is right for you. Listen to what others have to say, but always form your own conclusions.

Gratitude unifies the mind of man with the intelligence of substance, so that man's thoughts are received by the formless.

Whatever may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or successful life unless one is rich.

Your place in life is not fixed by heredity.