You have to learn the rules of the game. Then you have to play better than anyone else.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story.

Reality doesn't go away when it is ignored.

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

Anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, now that's the real test.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it is better to listen to what it has to say.

Nobody is more inferior than those who insists on being equal.

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.

Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Badness you can get easily, in quantity: the road is smooth, and it lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard.

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is. waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.