When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that...the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat.

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.

I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish.

Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.

The finest friendships are between those who can do without each other.

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

The more one knows, the more one simplifies.