Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.

I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the way I do if God hadn't wanted me to.'

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.