Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.

Success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.

There is romance in coffee. It comes from the ends of the earth, and goes to the far corners of man's habitation.

... the deep experience of the lonely climb on the mountain of success brings a wealth beyond power to compute. To you all suffering is understandable and your heart opens wide in sympathy.

One must eliminate the traditional and cling to the essential.

Really to succeed, we must give; of our souls to the soulless, of our love to the lonely, of our intelligence to the dull. Business is quite as much a process of giving as it is of getting.

The small perplexities of small minds eddy and boil about you. Confident from the experience that has led you out of these same dangers, you attack each problem as it appears, unafraid.

for the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is safe from invasion.

Not only is orderliness an economy; it produces rest.

I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.

In business everyone is out to grab, to fight, to win. Either you are the under or the over dog. It is up to you to be on top.

Professor Morgan had called [Dooley] 'a lad of few words.' That wasn't true. There were words spilling around in him all the time. Too many words. His problem was organizing them.

There is nothing near as powerful in making a nation great like establishing values and virtues upon a nation.

Independence was as far as his mind could reach. Yet I think his mind groped further, towards what he could not see, the body's obscure, inalterable dream of mutuality.

When we create hope and opportunity in the lives of others, we allow love, decency and promise to triumph over cowardice and hate.

I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.

I love the word warm. It is almost unbearable-- so moist and breathlike.

In the world of Internet Customer Service, it's important to remember your competitor is only one mouse click away.

I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again.

To genius life never grows commonplace.

Look to see what you are doing today. Is this how you choose to define yourself? Look to see what you are thinking today. Is this what you wish to create?