No one ever gets too big to make mistakes. The secret is that the big man is greater than his mistakes, because he rises right out of them and passes beyond them.

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.

There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.

In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice.

He climbs highest who helps another up.

You are your greatest investment. The more you store in that mind of yours, the more you enrich your experience, the more people you meet, the more books you read, and the more places you visit, the greater is that investment in all that you are. Everything that you add to your peace of mind, and to your outlook upon life, is added capital that no one but yourself can dissipate.

Beauty of expression is so akin to the voice of the sea.