Our rewards in life will always be in direct ratio to our service.

Failures . . . believe that their lives are shaped by circumstances ... by things that happen to them ... by exterior forces.

Some people act as if it were demeaning to their manhood to wish to be well-read but you can no more be a healthy person mentally without reading substantial books than you can be a vigorous person physically without eating solid food. Books should be chosen, not for their freedom from evil, but for their possession of good. Dr. Johnson said: "Whilst you stand deliberating which book your son shall read first, another boy has read both."

The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.

Courage changes things for the better...[With courage you can] stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.

Happiness comes to those who are moving toward something they want very much to happen. And it almost always involves making someone else happy.

Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.