Favorite Quotes
Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
You are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.
Having the basics—a good bed to sleep in, good relationships, good food, and good sex—is most important, and those things don’t get much better when you have a lot of money or much worse when you have less. And the people one meets at the top aren’t necessarily more special than those one meets at the bottom or in between.
A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.
Avoid debt, jail, addiction, disgrace, shortcuts, and media.