Don't you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a silver platter?

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt.

Enthusiasm is the dynamics of your personality. Without it, whatever abilities you may possess lie dormant; and it is safe to say that nearly every man has more latent power than he ever learns to use. You may have knowledge, sound judgment, good reasoning faculties; but no one-not even yourself-will know it until you discover how to put your heart into thought and action.

The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

The most important thing in life is not simply to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence, and makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool.

By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.