One needs to be successful in the conventional way to learn just how far away from success it may be.

Believe in the best ... have a goal for the best, never be satisfied with less than your best, try your best, and in the long run things will turn out for the best

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There's enough alcohol in one year's yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years.

Understand the difference between being at work and working.

If there is one thing which I would banish from the earth it is fear.

Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.