Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.

The Bible says, 'Where there is no vision, the people perish.' Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.

In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.

...the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation's destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.

Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.

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

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.