The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as the leader.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of living.

He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal; however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be.

Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.

It takes a great man to make a great listener

Even as zombies, ridiculous prom gowns were the downfall of teenage girls, crippling them at the knees.

They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

Barack Obama is a president who, when he had to deal with the 2008 economic crisis, has led the American economy on a completely different path than the one that Europe has chosen eight years later.

I'm not supposed to be the one that's caught with his pants down.

I just called to say, 'I love you.

I’m just confusing the thrill of being young with the notion that the era in which I was young was in any way especially creative or remarkable.

If you believe in your value, how could it possibly be appropriate to hide it from people who need it?

I don't build character. I eliminate the people who don't have it.