You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

Be larger than your task.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Every child should be taught to expect success

It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.

To have done no man a wrong...to walk and live, unseduced, within arm's length of what is not your own, with nothing between your desire and its gratification but the invisible law of rectitude-this is to be a man.

Laughter brightens the eye, increases the perspiration, expands the chest, forces the poisoned air from the least-used cells, and tends to restore that exquisite poise or balance which we call health.