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.

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.

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 better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.

My cat knows the meaning of life, but has no interest in sharing the secret.

The idea of excessive diversification is madness. Wide diversification, which necessarily includes investment in mediocre businesses, only guarantees ordinary results.

Do you truly believe that life is fair, Senor de la Vega? -No, maestro, but I plan to do everything in my power to make it so.

One reason, of course, as a Christian, I believe the Bible is the word of God. I take the Bible as the standard.

Isn't everyone just travelling down their own road watching the signs as they go?

Never hear what a jackal-speaking person thinks, especially what they think about you.

When he woke, daylight was coming through the glass floor, and a boy's voice said, "Oh...You are in so much trouble.

Nothing is truly infamous, but what is wicked; and therefore shame can never disturb an innocent and virtuous mind.

Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.