Your ambition should be to get as much life out of living as you possibly can, as much enjoyment, as much interest, as much experience, as much understanding. Not simply be what is generally called a 'success.'

It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.

The mind must be trained, rather than the memory.

As life developed, I faced each problem as it came along. As my activities and work broadened and reached out, I never tried to shirk. I tried never to evade an issue. When I found I had something to do--I just did it.

How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.

What one has to do usually can be done.

We have come to accept bigger and bigger things as meaning greater and greater efficiency, more and more prosperity and more and more freedom. The two do not go together of necessity.