No man [or woman] is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own personal initiative.

Fear is the tool of a man-made devil

Success is knowing what you're doing, loving what you're doing, and believing what you're doing

There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.

Fortunes gravitate to men whose minds have been prepared to attract them just as surely as water gravitates to the ocean.

To win the big stakes in this changed world, you must catch the spirit of the great pioneers of the past, whose dreams have given to civilization all that it has of value, the spirit that serves as the life-blood of our own country – your opportunity and mine, to develop and market our talents.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.