Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

A man's reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally.

Neither the individual nor the race is improved by almsgiving. The best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise.

I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service.

Show me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I'll show you a winner every time.

The first thing to do about an obstacle is simply to stand up to it and not complain about it or whine under it but forthrightly attack it. Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have. Just stand up to it, that's all, and don't give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break and it won't be you, it will be the obstacle.

The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train.