To me success means effectiveness in the world, that i am able to carry my ideas and values into the world? that i am able to change it in positive ways

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire. The fault lies in us, in our want of control.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.