The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.

Listen if you want to be heard

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.

The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, that to institute a new order of things

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.

To those whom much is given, much is expected.