There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

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.

Integrity makes my job easier. It's deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort.

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.

A church without the broken is a broken church.

The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.

He who knows most believes the least.

Penitentiary songs have been a love of mine for years. They are so wonderful.

The Lord saved my soul.

Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.

When love could teach a monarch to be wise, And gospel-light first dawn'd from Bullen's eyes.

Life is like the rungs on a ladder. The reason they are placed so close together is that we can learn to take baby steps and reach our destinations safely.