"Fortune crowns the bold before the worthy"
"It's by stooping that fingers create a fist, and by standing tall that they give us open palms."
"The first act in the training of a warrior should be how to string his rifle and turn it into a guitar"
"There is only one thing worse than a little baby who won't stop crying: it is a big baby who won't stop whining about it"
"It is only in grammar that the mighty can be bound by rules made by the humble"
"Might without right makes blight"
"Today's troubled homes are made by parents who want to have children but don't want their children to have parents"
"To be laughed at draws more profitable attention than being smiled at"
"Fortune draws her breath through cracks that make coarse the route on which we march to success"
"The choice is ours to make whether the stars in the night sky shine upon us as headlights of an approaching paradise or as tail-lights of receding fortunes"
"You lose nothing if by losing a friend you win countless admirers"
"It is through aversion to hardship that great ideas are born, but it is only through acceptance of it that these ideas can be implemented"
"Success dwells in a neighbourhood that can only be explored through failure, and it is through perfect knowledge of that neighbourhood that we gain perfect knowledge of her address"
"The experience of the expert is an advantage to them only for as long as it enables them to learn faster than the novice"
"The fortune that you feel you don't deserve is heaven's compensation for the misfortunes she feels you didn't deserve"
"There are three houses that the ultimate adult must leave: their parents' house, their employer's house, and their teacher's house. So they must someday found their own home, their own business, and their own school of thought so that they can live under their own roof at home, at work, and in thought."
"Depending on someone to make for you money is quite like depending on them to make for you a baby: they will own the money just as they will own the baby"
"Asking someone to make for you money is like asking them to make for you a baby: they will own the money just as they will own the baby"
"The quality of a man is to be judged not by what he drives but by what drives him"
"Faith is not mere belief but is that state you attain when you send your will, words, thoughts, beliefs, and actions into orbit around a chosen goal"
"The rich don't know when they will die, but the world's poor don't know when they will live"
"To the aimless man all men are equal, but to him with purpose some men are seed and others weed"
"Friends are won through personal contact, but admirers are won through their contact with our works"
"The true worth of a man is not seen in the value his money gives him but in the value he gives his money by the uses he puts it to"
"The poet drafts his work as a writer but edits it as a sculptor, with his pen as a chisel and his mind a hammer."