Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their
food, and tyrannize their teachers.

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their
food, and tyrannize their teachers.

The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they read more

The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their "Luck" arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. - Letters read more

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. - Letters to Young Men.

Do not anxiously hope for that which is not yet come; do not vainly
regret what is already past.

Do not anxiously hope for that which is not yet come; do not vainly
regret what is already past.

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I
looked into the soul of the boy read more

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I
looked into the soul of the boy next to me.

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a read more

I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.

Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.