If I had the opportunity to say a fine word to all the young people of America, it would be this: Don't think too much about yourselves. Try to cultivate the habit of thinking of others; this will reward you. Nourish your minds by good reading, constant reading. Discover what your lifework is, work in which you can do most good, in which you can be happiest. Be unafraid in all things when you know you are in the right.

Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome.

I have a conviction that a few weeks spent in a well organized summer camp may be of more value educationally than a whole year of formal school work.

Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action.

Let us remember that the times which future generations delight to recall are not those of ease and prosperity, but those of adversity bravely borne.

The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day.

There is no mystery about successful business.... Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you.