Society and the World

The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual, everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.

I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.

Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

Let every man do that which is right, strive with all his might towards the goal which can never be obtained, develop to the last breath the gifts with which the gracious Creator has endowed him, and never cease to learn. For life is short, art eternal.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

Winners make it happen. Losers let it happen.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Plan your work and work your plan.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Long-range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them.

For every disciplined effort, there is a multiple reward.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened among all of the political men of our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit; not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by nonparticipation in what we believe is evil.