"The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else."

"The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is."

"Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others."

"It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior imapartiality."

"The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature."

"A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating."

"Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed."

"Feeling special is the worst kind of cage a person can build for himself."

"Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny."

"You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do. But you don't know to be arrogant about it."

"The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others."

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy"