Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.

I can't give you a recipe for success, but I can give you a recipe for failure: try to please everybody.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.

Pretend you’re more obsessed with this moment and a little bit less with the way it ends.

Some things are best mended by a break.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

I found my place when I stopped looking for it.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.