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.

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.

Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

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