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.

It is a great paradox - almost everyone wants to improve his circumstances but almost no one wants to improve himself.

Hang on the walls of your mind the memory of your successes. Take counsel of your strength, not your weakness. Think of the good jobs you have done. For whenever excellence is recounted, it is increased.

Successful people follow successful patterns.

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

If one neglects the laws of learning, a sentence is imposed that he is forever chained to his ignorance.

It is a serious mistake to judge God within the narrow limits of our own understanding and abilities.