Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.

Most of us expect too much from others and not enough from ourselves.

Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost.

[on education] It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

Let us resolve to do the best we can with what we've got.