I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy.

A man may be down, but he is never out.

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

Voltaire spoke of the Bible as a short-lived book. He said that within a hundred years it would pass from common use. Not many people read Voltaire today, but his house has been packed with Bibles as a depot of a Bible society.

No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints.