Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.

There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.

A truly successful person knows how to overcome the past, use the present, and prepare for the future-but unless we can first surmount the past, we cannot effectively cope with either the present or the future.

By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling.

Between the semi-educated, who offer simplistic answers to complex questions, and the overeducated, who offer complicated answers to simple questions, it is a wonder that any questions get satisfactorily answered at all.

The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'