Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

If this life is not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight.

If I should throw down a thousand beans at random upon a table, I could doubtless, by eliminating a sufficient number of them, leave the rest in almost any geometrical pattern you might propose to me, and you might then say that that pattern was the thing prefigured beforehand, and that the other beans were mere irrelevance and packing material. Our dealings with Nature are just like this.

The mind is made up by what it feeds upon.

If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill.

With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.