"If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it."

"If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke."

"At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self."

"Modern man's loss of a sense of being sinful doesn't spring from a feeling that he is inherently good. Rather, it springs from his feeling of being inherently ineffectual."

"The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?"

"A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority."

"Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example."

"Ask advice only of your equals."

"Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present."

"Many receive advice, few profit by it."

"The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right."

"Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it."