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

The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age

Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your v