We cannot build our lives around what might happen tomorrow.

You are who you are and what you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change who you are and what you are by changing what goes into your mind

Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.

If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

Live in such a way that if someone should speak badly of you, no one would believe it.

People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest.