I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

I don’t think we are going to become extinct. We are very clever and very resourceful.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

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

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.

The time is always right to do the right thing

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.