All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.

You can be absolutely certain that when you feel you are being most unfairly tested, you are being prepared for great achievement.

There is always plenty of capital for those who can create practical plans for using it

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Only the highway of useful service leads to the city of happiness.

Every person should make it his business to gather new ideas from sources other than the environment in which he daily lives and works. The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.