Ancient Chinese custom if you were a guest in one of their homes and you admired some particular thing, they would wrap it up and present it to you as a gift. But isn't that what life does.

Planning is the mother of almost every other ability. Make your plan and set a timetable for its accomplishment in writing.

The way of success is not run with seven league boots but step by step, little by little, bit by bit ... with no exceptions allowed.

The greatest of all our human concepts is the immortality of the personality and the eternal glory of the human soul. Throughout eternity you will be yourself and I will be myself, with quickened senses amplified powers of perception, and vastly increased capacity for reason, understanding, love, and happiness, all of which are qualities we may develop now. Our machines wear out, our barns fall down, and our substance goes back to the dust, but our finest collection of personal qualities will have eternal life.

There is a blueprint for every accomplishment-all we need to do is to know how to follow it. Trial and error is ridiculous after the truth has once been established.

One of greatest thieves this world has is procrastination, and he is still at large. Are we aiding and abetting the criminal?

We insist on near perfection in everyone except ourselves. But if our course is questioned we become offended.