The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.

The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.

Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by electricity, began where he stood to put his dream into action, and despite more than ten thousand failures, he stood by that dream until he made it a physical reality. Practical dreamers do not quit.

Somewhere in your make-up there lies sleeping, the seed of achievement which, if aroused and put into action, would carry you to heights, such as you may never have hoped to attain.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

The most damaging forms of intolerance are connected with religious, racial and political differences of opinion.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.