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

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball, and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. .. Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board, and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay.

Make a better friend of every man with whom you come in contact

Work is the best method devised for killing time.

[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.

No task is so humble that it does not offer an outlet for individuality.