The secret of making progress is to get started.

It has been said that a Scotchman has not seen the world until he has seen Edinburgh; and I think that I may say that an American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all.

Don't just sit there and worry. Be proactive. Do something - anything - about what's worrying you so you can gain information, focus and control over the situation. I've suffered a great many catastrophes in my life. Most of them never happened.

To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.

What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow; nothing can prevent it.