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

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 opportunity of our lives is to wake ourselves up and get going. There is so much to be done and so little time to do it. We should impress ourselves with the seriousness of slothfulness.

You can't judge a man by watching him live. . . . I personally watched Babe Ruth at bat three times, and he struck out every time. But at the very time that I was watching him strike out, the record said that he was the greatest home-run king who ever lived.

The hottest coals of fire ever heaped upon the head of one who has wronged you are the coals of human kindness.

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

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