There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less
than the long-range risks and read more

There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less
than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar
or coffee and I will pay more read more

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar
or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under
the sun.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Every creative act involves...a new innocence of perception, liberated
from the cataract of accepted belief.

Every creative act involves...a new innocence of perception, liberated
from the cataract of accepted belief.

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland,
we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's read more

When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland,
we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's incompletions
is a heavy load to carry. Don't carry it.

It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy,
rich or poor.

It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy,
rich or poor.

You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a
strange picture on your press.

You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a
strange picture on your press.

People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge
everything as it relates to them.

People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge
everything as it relates to them.