Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Things may come to those who wait but only the things left by those who hustle.

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

A man should look for what is, and not what he thinks should be.

The man with no imagination has no wings.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

To go too far is as bad as to fall short.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.

We're lost, but we're making good time

You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Argue not concerning God,re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.