Ideas are intangible forces, but they have more power than the physical brains that give birth to them. They have the power to live on, after the brain that creates them has returned to dust.

One of the most essential yet the hardest truths that I have had to learn is that every person should be his own hardest task-master.

You either ride life or it rides you. Your mental attitude determines who is 'rider' and who is 'horse.'

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.

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.

You’ve got to be sure of yourself before You can ever win a prize.