“It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have... we always want more.”

“80% of people's problems are about how they feel about themselves.”

“Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.”

“I don't really have many hobbies but one of my favorite things to do is spend time with my family. We have fun together, and building those relationships is very important to me.”

“Life is what comes along after you have planned something else.”

“Boldness be my friend.”

“I can call spirits from the vasty deep.”

“Your wisdom is consum'd in confidence. Do not go forth to-day.”

“If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself but falsehood.”

“The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.”

“The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.”

“Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.”

“Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend; there, the whole aspect of things changes.”

“Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.”

“Assume a virtue if you have it not.”

“Best men oft are moulded out of faults.”

“Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure.”

“Winners evaluate themselves in a positive manner and look for their strengths as they work to overcome weaknesses.”

“Many times our weaknesses are extensions of our strengths.”

“A forte always makes a foible.”