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The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary business is learning. It is also the primary entertainment. To retain that orientation into adulthood, so that consciousness is not a burden but a joy, is the mark of the successfully developed human being.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard for any other consideration.

The sexual regions constitute a particularly vulnerable spot, and remain so even in man, and the need for their protection which thus exists conflicts with the prominent display required for sexual allurement. This end is far more effectively attained, with greater advantage and less disadvantage, by concentrating the chief ensigns of sexual attractiveness on the upper and more conspicuous parts of the body. This method is well-nigh universal among animals as well as in man.

When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.

If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there's no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind.

Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.

The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change.

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you.

The greatest people will be those who possess the best capacities, cultivated with the best habits.

I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.

It is nobler to convert souls, than to conquer kingdoms.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be so sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure as he is, he shall shoot higher than he who aims at a bush.