Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be read more

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, read more

The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts --the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria --are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and read more

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.

Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.

The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.