Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

The man who always takes and never gives is not a leader. He is a parasite.

There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.

Verily, there is nothing, right or wrong, which belief, plus burning desire, cannot make real.

Loud threats often indicate deep fears

The necessity for struggle is one of the clever devices through which nature forces individuals to expand, develop, progress, and become strong through resistance. . .We are forced to recognize that this great universal necessity for struggle must have a definite and useful purpose. That purpose is to force the individual to sharpen his wits, arouse his enthusiasm, build up his spirit of faith, gain definiteness of purpose, develop his power of will, and inspire his faculty of imagination to give him new uses for old ideas and concepts. . .