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The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself read more
The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.
 Be a spot on the ground where nothing is growing, where something
might be planted, a seed, from the Absolute.  
 Be a spot on the ground where nothing is growing, where something
might be planted, a seed, from the Absolute. 
 Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together
go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, read more 
 Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together
go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. 
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
 Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the
obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited read more 
 Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the
obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than
the intelligence quotient. 
 Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of
bastards.  
 Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of
bastards. 
He who has put a good finish to his undertaking is said to have placed a golden crown to the read more
He who has put a good finish to his undertaking is said to have placed a golden crown to the whole.
 Do not anxiously hope for that which is not yet come; do not vainly
regret what is already past.  
 Do not anxiously hope for that which is not yet come; do not vainly
regret what is already past. 
 Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells
they occupied.  
 Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells
they occupied.