You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

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.

Farewell is said by the living, in life, every day. It is said with love and friendship, with the affirmation that the memories are lasting if the flesh is not.

Words that you use determine and control what happens in life.

Emotion is not what makes us weak. It's what makes us human, The ability to care, even if people often do not.

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

If my life was a song it would be 'Who Let The Dogs Out'.

We should put pressure on power and write the truth and write relentlessly and fearlessly. That's the job.

I rather think he knew anyway.

I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

I have only one desire, and that is the desire for solitude-to disappear into God, to be submerged in His peace, to be lost in the secret of His Face.

I like to hear what other people's interpretations are, because people come up with things I'd never thought about.