Money is power, money is force, money will do good as harm. In the hands of good men and women it could accomplish, and it has accomplished, good.

Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.

You can journey to the ends of the earth in search of success, but if you’re lucky, you will discover happiness in your own backyard.

So, if you feel a smile begin, don't leave it undetected, let's start an epidemic quick, and get the world infected!

Money is power. Every good man and woman ought to strive for power, to do good with it when obtained. I say, get rich, get rich!

No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer.

Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Greatness really consists in doing some great deed with little means.

Let us remember there is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings.

I ask not for a larger garden, but for finer seeds.

The heart cannot feel joy without also feeling pain, it cannot know love without also knowing loss.

One moment unstuck other stuck!

If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy but we want to be happier than other people which is almost always difficult since we think them happier than they are.

Let's not let a few dumb things Mitt Romney said in private overshadow the many idiotic things he's said in public.

Two things make a relationship providential: when we hear from God through someone and when we see God in someone.

Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…” (p. 141).

Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.

I do not have to be high to be great. I do not have to be drunk to have a good idea. I can sit with my thoughts and not feel crazy. I can do it... I can do it without the dope.

I love you more than the pool hall, but not as much as football.

Before you promise to change the world, it makes sense to do the hard work of changing your neighborhood.