Men do their hardest work at the bottom of the ladder, not at the top.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience.

After saying our prayers, we ought to do something to make them come true.

Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.

If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.

Nothing happens to you that has not happened to someone else.