The world looks as if it has been left in the custody of trolls. Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most. It is the one system which, until recently, had never in recorded history been openly challenged, and whose doctrines were so universally accepted that they seemed to be laws of nature. The rest is window dressing. Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
Thy second duty will already have become clearer. It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe. Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. I just watch what they do. No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.