We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads toward poverty.

Opportunity ... It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.

It is a curious quirk of human nature that some people can see opportunities, while others only see problems.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

If you can keep on trying after three failures in a given undertaking you may consider yourself a 'suspect' as a potential leader in your chosen occupation. If you can keep on trying after a dozen failures the seed of a genius is germinating within your soul.

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.