You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company - a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

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.

The greatest trouble with most of us is that our demands upon ourselves are so feeble, the call upon the great within of us so weak and intermittent that it makes no impression upon the creative energies; it lacks the force that transmutes desires into realities.

Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage...true success follows every right step.

We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success.

Keep fear out of your child's mind, as you would keep poison out of his body; for fear is the deadliest of mental poisons.