Building a successful life is much like building anything else: it should be thoroughly thought about in advance and then carried through to completion.

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

Fighting is not the best way to win an argument. If carried to its ultimate conclusions, the old idea of "an eye for an eye" eventually ends in making everybody blind.

One of the most productive things that we ever do in our lives is to think. To be able to think is to be able to decide, to judge, to have opinions and convictions, and to entertain a point of view. To be able to think is to be able to love, to believe, to work, to originate, and to organize.

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

Life begins when we begin and each day we ought to be born again.

I suggest...that you develop early in life the habit of retiring and arising early. You remember the advice of Ben Franklin: "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.