Brains aren't everything, but they're important.

The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited.

The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can; to act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us. In the hundred-yard race the winner doesn't cross the tape line a dozen strides ahead of the field. He wins by inches. So we find it in ordinary business life. The big things that come our way are seldom the result of long thought or careful planning, but rather they are the fruit of seed planted in the daily routine of our work.

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.

An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.

Only the man who can impose discipline on himself is fit to discipline others or can impose discipline on others.