The heart is the real fountain of youth.

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

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.

The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.

When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.

The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself?