Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.

Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.

Listen if you want to be heard

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

What one has to do usually can be done.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off

Percentages are why I am rich.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.