The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.

The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance.

The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.

Be methodical if you would succeed in business, or in anything. Have a work for every moment, and mind the moment's work.

The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.

One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties.

Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous.

As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.

The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible granules of powder, give the last and highest polish to a character.

Criminals are opportunists. If you've got a booming market, they're going to get away with more fraud.

The easiest way for me to lose interests is to know too much of what I want to say before I begin.

The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself.

If there is a perceived difference between what you expect from others and what you expect from yourself, it will eventually erode your influence.

Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.

Our language is the reflection of ourselves.

My role is to coach, encourage, inspire, motivate, and help people.

We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.

In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.

I'm an amused observer. I don't bet or gamble; that's the worst thing.

The reason or motivation you have for making money or creating success is vital.

Procrastination is One of those Excuses, Born of Fear, that we Use to Keep Ourselves Stuck