Whenever two men meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man was the other sees him, and each man as he really is. The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom. A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you. The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.