Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher.

Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.

When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

A man's not doing much until the cause he works for possesses all there is of him. Desire, when harnessed, is power.

I know that half of my advertising dollars are wasted ... I just don't know which half.

Nothing comes merely by thinking about it.

No mistake or failure is as bad as to stop and not try again.

Gratitude takes three forms: a feeling in the heart, an expression in words, and a giving in return.

Psychics, astrology, tarot cards - all these mystical non-sense are signs of a weak mind. Whenever such garbage starts grabbing hold of you, seek the help of a physician or therapist.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral port

I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.

I always had a decent sense of outrage.

Don't fear whatever God lays before you today.

Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.

Usually you don't think about re-releasing an old movie.

You're not doing the scene exactly the way it is in the book [The Hunger Games], but the intention of the scene is there.

Everything you need you already have.