“People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.”

“you don't need to be better than any one else you just need to be better than you used to be”

“It's all perfect, this Universe we are in. Slow down and enjoy it all.”

“Your ability to be a winner 100 percent of the time is based upon giving up the notion that losing at anything is equivalent to being a loser.”

“When I sit down to write a book, I don't ask myself, "How many am I going to sell?"”

“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.”

“Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude.”

“Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.”

“Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen!”

“My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.”

“I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.”

“Money often costs too much.”

“Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep.”

“No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison: We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out, In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones, That ebb and flow by the moon.”

“More matter with less art.”

“Always be aware that you have the power to create the naturally stress-free and tranquil life you desire.”

“Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.”

“I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.”