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.

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.'

We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.

We should not be frightened by appearances.

People in this world are not often logical.

The Veteran's Administration is a disaster, the V.A., it's a disaster.

If somebody gives me his hand, I will not look at him with suspicion.

I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go.

Unfortunately, since the Sept. 11 tragedy, our business is not doing too well.

No two things the same, the equals sign a scandal.

If it doesn't come from your heart, music just doesn't work.

All that God is, and all that God has, are at the disposal of player. Prayer can do anything that God can do, and as God can do anything, prayer is omnipotent.

What exactly did people do when they had all the time in the world and could do whatever they liked?