The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.

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

The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.

It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.

Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.

The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.

Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.