Every child should be taught to expect success

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.

Attraction is not an option.

Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had become absolute, beyond comparison. She had become decision and fate.

Mistakes can be fixed but if you do it more than once, it's no longer a mistake.

Your highest female grace is silence.

I try to find different ways of expressing myself. Without that I will die.

Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.

I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft.

It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly.

But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.

In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.