Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.

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.

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

If you want to give yourself a fair chance to succeed, never expect too much too soon

Soup is cozy.

Everyone can dream and as impossible as it may look and sound, this kind of thinking and attitude is what will keep us going.

Love isn't meant to hurt. But if it does, then it is absolutely not a true love.

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

I am certain a great many believers and bible readers do believe in social justice.

The supreme rulers are hardly known by their subjects. The lesser are loved and praised. The even lesser are feared. The least are despised.

I would never feel confident enough to express my views and opinions as the right ones because I just don't think that's possible. There are so many sides to everything that nobody is right or wrong.

There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them.