I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.

Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.

There is romance in coffee. It comes from the ends of the earth, and goes to the far corners of man's habitation.

Not only is orderliness an economy; it produces rest.

In all the wide gamut of human experience, nothing plays so important a part as faith.... Faith that is as broad as the heavens and as wide as the earth. Faith that comprehends in its vast sympathies everything human as well as divine, and carries one with the swift sure wings of the angels directly to his goal.

Really to succeed, we must give; of our souls to the soulless, of our love to the lonely, of our intelligence to the dull. Business is quite as much a process of giving as it is of getting.

To me life means the growing of a soul. I do not know why this duty is imposed upon us. I merely know that it is, and I feel that we are given much latitude of free will.