“If a man does his best, what else is there?”
“Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.”
“If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.”
“For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.”
“A righteous man does not conceive of himself as righteous; he is "only doing what anyone else would do," except, of course, that no one else does it.”
“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”