Anything in life worth having is worth working for.

I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened.

A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

The man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance, but of well-devised means for the attainment of ends.