Even when I go to a salad bar, I need to feel like I'm one of the first people there.
No profession, trade, or calling, is overcrowded in the upper story.
The noblest art is that of making others happy
Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves.
There is no greater picture than that of 10,000 smiling children. No brighter music than their clear-ringing laughter. That I, with my small amusements, have created such precious art is my life's proudest achievement.
Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.
If you have the character to hang in there when its tough, you will develop or acquire every other characteristic necessary to WIN in the game of life.
Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.
I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.
I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster.