When Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, he confessed that if he could be right 75 percent of the time, he would reach the highest measure of his expectation. . . . If that was the highest rating that one of the most distinguished men of the twentieth century could hope to obtain, what about you and me?

There is no such thing as constructive criticism.

If some people are so hungry for a feeling of importance that they actually go insane to get it, imagine what miracle you and I can achieve by giving people honest appreciation this side of insanity.

If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.

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

Patience and perserverance will accomplish more in this world than a brilliant dash. Remember that when something goes wrong.

The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, but the man who makes his own opportunities is, barring an accident, a sure-fire success