Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Our breath is brief, and being so Let's make our heaven here below, And lavish kindness as we go.

A promise made is a debt unpaid.

Just draw on your grit; it's so easy to quit - It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.

Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.

No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.

The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire

It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.

This is the law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; that surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.

it’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.

Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.

[On Washington, D.C.:] a town of successful men and the women they married before they were successful.

I don't kick dressing room doors, or the cat - or even journalists

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

I've been audited for many, many years in a row, which I think is unfair, but that's the way it is.

It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone.

A man's wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.

As I review my life, I feel I must have missed the point, either then or now.

He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.