Plants don't think. Animals are guided by the power of instinct over which they themselves have no control. Animals have a certain kind of brain that makes it impossible to learn anything except very simple things. No generation of animals ever learns anything from any previous generation. We act like animals when we fail to use this magnificent piece of equipment.

Most procrastination is largely indecision. Someone has said that "hell is just truth seen too late."

I know that what I have done I can do again.

Someone has said that planning is the place where man shows himself most like God. Nothing is more godlike than the planner, the thinker, the organizer. He is the one who draws the blueprint for success. He is the one who builds the roadway on which accomplishment will travel. It is likely that our greatest opportunity is to have a good set of definitely worked-out objectives that are fully believed in and about which firm determinations have been made.

I neither look up to the rich or down to the poor.

You should always have 2 books...the one you're reading and the one you're writing.

We have one of our greatest human experiences when we get an active idea working in our minds.