The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it, and go about your business. Suddenly, the idea will come through. It was there all the time.

Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the 'expert' state of mind a great number of things become impossible.

To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success.

The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much.

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.

Three rules: I do not eat too much; I do not worry too much; and, if I do my best, I believe that what happens, happens for the best.