Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.

We must become masters of our own actions and attitudes. To let another person determine whether we will be rude or gracious, elated or depressed is to give control of ourselves. The only true possession is self possession.

American parents, on the whole, do not want their sons to be artisans or craftsmen, but business or professional people. As a result, millions of youngsters are being prepared for careers they have little aptitude for - and little interest in except for dubious prestige.

The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

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.