The present is never a happy state to any being

An artist is only a very small part of the universe and should receive no more attention than any other thing on earth which provides us with beauty, happiness and plenty

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They