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

When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily scrutiny?

It may be true that the weak will always be driven to the wall; but it is the task of a just society to see that the wall is climbable.

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.

People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.