Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing.

A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed.

Time and time again, as a boy, I was humiliated. I celebrated my first day in long pants by going to a dance where I fell sprawling on the floor, and was so ashamed that I jumped up, ran away and left my girl to get home the best way she could.

It often happens that the man who pursues the dollar too diligently finds it hard to catch, but if he will pursue some other and better goal, dollars come around to see what sort of fellow he is.

Any experience can be transformed into something of value. Everything depends on the way you look at things. You cannot have the success without the failures.

Pressure selling is firmly rooted in American economic life, and I'm sorry it is, for it should not be necessary. Some people think part of the panic following 1929 was due to too much pressure in selling.

All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.