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Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty, they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.

We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.

Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us, but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak, speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual, if with your superiors, no finer.

The most complex things are the simplest.

You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

It's great to work with somebody who wants to do things differently.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again - and that is well, but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. -Mark Twain.

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch -what makes you go beyond the norm.

Truth and History involve nothing more than convincing the masses that you are right.

Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.

Advice is seldom welcome, and those who want it the most always like it the least.