Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

Money is a miraculous thing. It is your personal energy reduced to a portable form and endowed with power you yourself do not possess. It can go where you cannot go; speak languages you cannot speak; lift burdens you cannot touch with your fingers; save lives with which you cannot deal directly.

Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.

He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.