Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one's own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.

Is America becoming decadent? Do we no longer regard our promises and pledges as sacred? ... We promised to make peace with Germany only in conjunction with the Allies; but we brought forward a separate peace, demanding for ourselves all the advantages of the Treaty of Versailles but rejecting all the responsibilities embodied in the Treaty. It was America's President who induced Europe to form a League of Nations; and then America was the first country that refused to joint it.... If these are not the symptoms of national decadency, what are they?

A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.

Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one's own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.

If you do the best and the most you can today, don't worry about tomorrow.

Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.

The man who works 52 weeks in the year does not do his best in any one week of the year, Daniel Guggenheim, onetime head of the greatest smelting and mining family in America, impressed upon me. Real recreation quickens aspiration. The true purpose of recreation is not merely to amuse, not merely to afford pleasure, not merely to kill time, but to increase our fitness, enhance our usefulness, spur achievement.