We lift ourselves by our thought.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.

Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again

There must be something to acupuncture - after all you never see any sick porcupines.

As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.

The State shall make no law with respect to the establishment of education.

We need to develop people rather than process them.

When you miss the target, never in history has it been the target's fault. Ya gotta take responsibility!

Vengeance is mine; I will repay.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.

The progress of the world will call for the best that all of us have to give.

... a local, indigenous, American bizarre-ity.