The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

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.

It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.

To err is human - but it feels divine.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.

What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains and studying night and day how to fly?

Our strength lies in our intensive attacks and our barbarity...After all, who today remembers the genocide of the Armenians?

Stop and take your time to notice things and make those things you notice matter.

I think I had an argument with a hypnotist this morning. It makes perfect sense as I have no memory of it.

All things, and man as well, should be like nature, without measure.

To think I should have lived to be goodmorninged by Belladonna Took's son, as if I was selling buttons at the door!

Pioneering is the work of individuals.