Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest steppingstones to success. No other element can do so much for a man if he is willing to study them and make capital out of them. Look backward. Can't you see where your failures have helped you?

Nothing else so inspires and heartens people as words of appreciation. You and I may soon forger the words of encouragement and appreciation that we utter now, but the person to whom we have spoken them may treasure them and repeat them to themselves over a lifetime

If you have some idea you believe in, don't listen to the croaking chorus. Listen only to what your own inner voice tells you.

Believe that you will succeed, and you will.

It never hurts a fool to appear before an audience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling.

I wasn't interested in making a lot of money, but I was interested in making a lot of living.

A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. Intelligence is like underwear, everyone has it, but you don't have to show it off. The expression a woman wears on her face is more important than the clothes she wears on her back.