Always expect the best. Then if you have to hurdle a few tough problems, you will have generated the strength and courage to do so.

Keep out of your mind, and out of your office, and out of your world, every element that seeks admittance with no definite, helpful, useful end in view.

One reason why men and women lose their heads so often is that they use them so little! It is the same with everything. If we have anything that is valuable, it must be put to some sort of use. If a man's muscles are neglected, he soon has none, or rather none worth mentioning. The more the mind is used the more flexible it becomes, and the more it takes upon itself new interests.

It's marvelous the change that comes about when a man gets together all his forces and centers them upon the doing of one thing at a time.

What is more beautiful than a sea of water with a number of white-winged boats skirting its surface? Poetry and beauty contesting with the wind and the waves!

Enthusiasm is a kind of faith that has been set afire

It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives us character and prestige.