Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.

We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.

The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power.

A man will remain a rag-picker as long as he has only the vision of a rag-picker.

Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does.

There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.