“You must master an object before you attempt to despise it.”

“Master, Master of Light,
Whose eye dwells in the seeking fingers of the blind,
You are still despised and mocked,
A man too weak and infirm to be God,
A God too much man to call forth adoration.”

“In order to improve your game you must study the endgame before anything else; for, whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middlegame and the opening must be studied in relation to the endgame.”

“In order to be the master of your life, you must first recognize that you are the rightful master of your brain, its owner and operator.”

“I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.”

“If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted”

“Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.”

“The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves… is what I call hell.”

“No man should become a master of another. You must resist falling into this category.”

“You must always remain master of the situation and do what you please. No school tasks, ah, no! no tasks!”