Ninety-eight out of 100 of the rich men in America are honest. That is why they are rich.

Let us remember there is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings.

Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.

Begin where you are and what you are.

I ask not for a larger garden, but for finer seeds.

Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life.