You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities.

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

You can succeed if nobody else believes it, but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.

Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.

Your greatness is measured by your kindness.

Beware of ignorance when in motion; look out for inexperience when in action, and beware of the majority when mentally poisoned with misinformation, for collective ignorance does not become wisdom.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world.

It's better to be kind than to be right.

I love the hour in makeup. It gives you time to think and have a cup of coffee. It's my favorite part of the day.

We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.

Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps.

Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.

Once you lose somebody so close to you, you become very overprotective.

O farmer, strong farmer! You can spend at the fair, But your face you must turn To your crops and your care

I am a toggler. I always have three or four projects going, short stories alongside novels and essays. When one project is terrible, there's somewhere else hopeful to look.

He's just rather more lively than most fossils.