"Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future."

"You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile."

"Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance."

"Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy."

"It is a humble truth that the greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?"

"It is a essential truth that in the tapestry of human existence, every trial adds depth to the design — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called."