If virtue were its own reward it would no longer be a human quality but supernatural.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

Patience is the art of hoping.

The lazy are always wanting to do something.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

Prosperity makes few friends.

Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.

He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.

There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.

Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.

The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.

Programmed in self-hatred, many of us shadow-box the light of day away and chase everything meaningless the night through until we perish more ignorant and confused than the very day we were born.

God gives His deepest discernment and sharpest marksmanship to men who aim to expose His truth before an enemy's lies.

We have to try to control what we can or else we cannot judge progress.

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

A physician who treated mental cases says that he based his diagnosis on the way his patients moved: "The body never lies" was his maxim.

In writing advertising it must always be kept in mind that the customer often knows more about the goods than the advertising writers because they have had experience in buying them.

A tale from which pieces have been raked out is like a fire that has been poked. One does not know the operation has been performed, but everyone feels the effect.

Most people guard against going into the fire, and so end up in it.

America - love it or leave it.