Keep fear out of your child's mind, as you would keep poison out of his body; for fear is the deadliest of mental poisons.

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.

You can´t learn leadership from books. You learn it by following.

One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.

Among young people . . . drinking is for getting drunk. And many go on to become alcoholics.

First sign of madness, talking to your own head.

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

In life, in true life, there can be nothing better than what is. Wanting something different than what is, is blasphemy.

I'm like a big old hen. I can't cluck too long about the egg I've just laid because I've got 5 more inside me pushing to get out.

Good homes are still the best source of good humans.

It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era.

We are here for an education.