If there is no intelligence in the universe, then the universe has created something greater than itself-for it has created you and me.

Get money - but stop once in a while to figure what it is costing you to get it. No man gets it without giving something in return. The wise man gives his labor and ability. The fool gives his life.

Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.

When you can dump a load of bricks on a corner lot, and let me watch them arrange themselves into a house - when you can empty a handful of springs and wheels and screws on my desk, and let me see them gather themselves together into a watch - it will be easier for me to believe that all these thousands of worlds could have been created, balanced, and set to moving in their separate orbits, all without any directing intelligence at all.

Learn their lesson, that if you would teach people you first must capture their interest with news; that your service rather than your sermons must be your claim upon their attention; that what you say must be simple, and brief, and above all sincere - the unmistakable voice of true regard and affection.

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

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