Someone has said that after age forty, each of us pretty much deserves the face he is wearing. He designed it form the inside.

There is a fatality about unkept good resolutions. They are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

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.

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

In Jack Dempsey's early days he had a fight contract, which paid him two dollars per fight for the fights he won. He received nothing for the fights he lost. Jack Dempsey said that in his early days he was knocked down a lot of times and he usually was tempted to stay down because he knew that no one would hit him again until he started to get up. But Jack was a hungry fighter and he knew that if he was going to eat, he must get up in order to get the two dollars. He tells of one occasion when he was knocked down 11 times in one fight, and 11 times he got up in order to win the $2.

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.

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