John Wanamaker, founder of the stores that bear his name, once confessed: "I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.

If you must make a mistake, make a new one each time.

If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I'll tell you what you are.

Your smile is a messenger of your goodwill.

Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

...the best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today's work superbly today. That is the only possible way you can prepare for the future.