If you wish to succeed in managing and controlling others - learn to manage and control yourself.

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities.

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

You can succeed if nobody else believes it, but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.

Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.

Your greatness is measured by your kindness.

Beware of ignorance when in motion; look out for inexperience when in action, and beware of the majority when mentally poisoned with misinformation, for collective ignorance does not become wisdom.

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

A great many things keep happening, some good, some bad.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.

Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a dog.

love being such, or such, the normal corners of your heart will never guess how much my wonderful jealousy is dark

Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care.

Your thoughts and emotions are the drama that you create in your mind. You must be able to end it somewhere.

For as spiritual as some people think my books are, I've never really dealt with religious things.

A young man ain't nothin' in the world these days

Humanity has to travel a hard road to wisdom, and it has to travel it with bleeding feet.

On this earth, though far and near, without love, there's only fear.