If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination.

You can always become the person you would have liked to be.

The average person would have quit at the first failure. That’s why there have been many average men and only one Edison.

No man can become a great leader of men unless he has the milk of human kindness in his own heart, and leads by suggestion and kindness, rather than by force.

Nothing is more tragic - or more common - than mental inertia.

Knowledge is only potential power.

One must realize that all who have accumulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring, and planning before they acquired money.