Always expect the best. Then if you have to hurdle a few tough problems, you will have generated the strength and courage to do so.

In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice.

It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.

Keep out of your mind, and out of your office, and out of your world, every element that seeks admittance with no definite, helpful, useful end in view.

Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up your interests.

He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day...needs to reorganize his life

We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think we can.

What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you.

Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first.

He climbs highest who helps another up.

There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.

You are what you think. Before you succeed physically, it had been done mentally. The hometown of both victory and defeat is the mind of a person.

Novelty has a way of intensifying memory. The less often you do something, the deeper the memory burrows in.

People who regard themselves as highly efficacious act, think, and feel differently from those who perceive themselves as inefficacious. They produce their own future, rather than simply foretell it.

The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.

You can pour melted ice cream on regular ice cream. It's like a sauce!

I come alive when there is a chance to learn or do something different.

Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for the purpose of progress.

We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin.

There is no eloquence without a man behind it.