Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

History is the new poetry.

The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.

Fire is the best of servants, but what a master!

Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.

There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.