Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.

The common denominator for success is work.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

My mother was given to a typical question: "We have always done this. Why should we do anything else?" But my wife's typical question was "We have always done this. Why don't we do it another way or, better still, why not do something else?"

Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.

Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.

Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.