“Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind
“People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents
“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time
“No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so.
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great
“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man