You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do. It's simple, fantasize, rehearse, then go out into the world and DO IT!

People see successes that men have made and somehow they appear to be easy. But that is a world away from the facts. It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard. A man can fail easily; he can succeed only by paying out all that he has and is.

A poor man is not the one without a cent. A poor man is the one without a dream.

The unhappiest man on earth is the one who has nothing to do.

The truth frequently seems unreasonable; the truth frequently is depressing; the truth sometimes seems to be evil, but it has the eternal advantage, it is the truth and what is built thereon neither brings nor yields to confusion.

Our clothing, our food, our household furnishings - all could be much simpler than they now are and at the same time be better looking

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.