Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change.

No people ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue.

Never hit if you can help it, but when you have to, hit hard. Never hit soft. You'll never get any thanks for hitting soft.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.