Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Youth believes itself immortal. There is a cure for such an attitude, but unfortunately it is a cure from which one never recovers.

At the age of 46, forgetfulness & confusion had become a daily aspect of life.

A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

The most wonderful and amazing people are those, who are true to themselves.

The "passion for incredulity" can produce as much self-deception as the uncritical will to believe.

I've always looked at friends as the family we choose.

Economics is not a morality play.

I am not going to let Athens affect the rest of my life.

That proverbial saying, "Ill news goes quick and far.