Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all... Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot--or if you do not know how to improve on things--then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.

Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts.

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.

Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.

America has never forgotten - and never will forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path...