It is salutary to TRAIN ONESELF to be no more AFFECTED by censure than by PRAISE.

The biggest guru-mantra is: NEVER SHARE your secrets with ANYBODY. It will DESTROY you.

When I was as you are now, towering in the CONFIDENCE of twenty-one, LITTLE did I SUSPECT that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

The DIFFERENCE between STUPIDITY and GENIUS is that genius has its LIMITS.

When UNHAPPY, one DOUBTS EVERYTHING; when HAPPY, one doubts NOTHING.

He who does not bellow the TRUTH when he KNOWS the truth MAKES himself the accomplice of LIARS and forgers.

I hate FACTS. I always say the CHIEF end of man is to FORM GENERAL propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a DAMN.

Always CONTINUE the climb. It is POSSIBLE for you to do whatever you CHOOSE, if you first GET to know who you are and are willing to work with a POWER that is greater than ourselves to do it.

The decision to kiss for the FIRST time is the most crucial in any love story. It CHANGES the RELATIONSHIP of TWO people much more strongly than even the FINAL surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.

Thanks be to God. SINCE my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my BUSINESS better, and do spend LESS money, and less time lost in idle company.

A LAWYER with his briefcase can STEAL more than a hundred MEN with GUNS.

For every PERSON who has EVER LIVED there has come, at last, a SPRING he will never see. GLORY then in the springs that are yours.

In the POWER of fixing the attention lies the most PRECIOUS of the INTELLECTUAL habits.