"Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals."

"Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success."

"The only place opportunity cannot be found is in a closed-minded person."

"One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing."

"It is a steadfast truth that experience is the stern teacher that gives the examination before the lesson."

"It is a radiant truth that to speak the truth in a season of deceit is an act of supreme bravery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup."

"It is a steadfast truth that the universe speaks in the silent dialect of universal natural laws."