Poverty is no disgrace. But it is certainly not a recommendation.

You cannot become a power in your community nor achieve enduring success in any worthy undertaking until you become big enough to blame yourself for your own mistakes and reverses.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Worry is a state of mind based upon fear. It works slowly, but persistently. It is insidious and subtle. Step by step it “digs itself in” until it paralyzes ones reasoning faculty, destroys self-confidence and initiative. Worry is a form of sustained fear caused by indecision therefore it is a state of mind which can be controlled.

If it isn't your job to do it, perhaps it is your opportunity

The imagination is both interpretative and creative in nature.

Nobody rises above mediocrity unless they use the brains of other people.