There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.

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.

Far more than the shield is the Pleasure I get on the field . . . the Joy of the chase is greater than the result of the race.

She let herself fall backwards into the music, and it was like falling in a dream, without fear.It was like being a raindrop falling into the ocean that had started you.

We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear.

It’s funny, there are so many women who are former executives and have taken all that stress and anxiety and transferred it onto their kids.

When man desires to live as long as a tree, his diet will be fruit.

The courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.

Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard to keep the reader interested ...)

Growth in any individual European country has to be the result of policies for growth pursued in that country consistent with budgetary discipline.

I travelled to California when I was 18 and went to Los Angeles State College.

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.