You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.- William Lyon Phelps
You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.
Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.
This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit they enjoy life.
The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.
The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.
One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.
In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.
If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.
If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet.
