Happiness depends upon ourselves.

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

To lead an orchestra, you must turn your back on the crowd.

Excellent is a habit

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings-always darker, emptier and simpler.

In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.

Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.

You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.

The most successful men, in the end, are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.