It often happens that the man who pursues the dollar too diligently finds it hard to catch, but if he will pursue some other and better goal, dollars come around to see what sort of fellow he is.

There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.

Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing.

All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.

There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.

Any experience can be transformed into something of value. [ - worthy of enjoying by knowing it could have been worse.]

Any experience can be transformed into something of value. Everything depends on the way you look at things. You cannot have the success without the failures.

A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed.

I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.

Any experience can be transformed into something of value.

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself I am large I contain multitudes.

Something feels funny. I must be thinking too hard.

Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.

The Bible, in which these things are taught, favors drunkenness, murder, slavery, lying, stealing and lechery.

If you love something enough, it will reveal itself to you.

I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.

You are the strongest when relaxed and at peace

Don't sacrifice your spirit for wealth. Grow your wealth by first growing your spirit.

I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities.