"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."

"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."

"The only way to escape the corrupting influence of praise is to go on working."

"Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do-but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it."

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the ar…"