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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

“Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge.”

“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”

“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.”

“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success ... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.”

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”

“There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.”

“I am no feminist. Even though the term "feminism" is founded upon the basic principle of gender equality, it possesses its own fundamental gender bias, which makes it inclined towards the wellbeing of women, over the wellbeing of the whole society. And if history has shown anything, it is that such fundamental biases in time corrupt even the most glorious ideas and give birth to prejudice, bigotry and differentiation.”

“Being different and thinking different makes a person unforgettable. History does not remember the forgettable.”