for the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is safe from invasion.

Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.

Success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.

There is romance in coffee. It comes from the ends of the earth, and goes to the far corners of man's habitation.

... the deep experience of the lonely climb on the mountain of success brings a wealth beyond power to compute. To you all suffering is understandable and your heart opens wide in sympathy.

One must eliminate the traditional and cling to the essential.

Really to succeed, we must give; of our souls to the soulless, of our love to the lonely, of our intelligence to the dull. Business is quite as much a process of giving as it is of getting.

The small perplexities of small minds eddy and boil about you. Confident from the experience that has led you out of these same dangers, you attack each problem as it appears, unafraid.

Not only is orderliness an economy; it produces rest.

I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.

In business everyone is out to grab, to fight, to win. Either you are the under or the over dog. It is up to you to be on top.

I’m a creature of the night.” Slitted eyes peered at her suspiciously. “Good God, you’re not a morning person, are you?

Every day that we're not practicing godliness we're being conformed to the world of ungodliness around us.

A man must choose his own way of life, and…it is only by following out one’s own bent that there can be the really harmonious life.” [In an interview conducted by Bram Stoker]

The Inexhaustible Resource of Spirit is equal to every demand. There is no reality in lack. Abundance is here and now manifest.

When you first start working, you take whatever job is offered, because you have to build your resume. But you don't think about what you're building.

Although it raine, throw not away thy watering pot.

Ya know, America's a great country. It's great because it allows you to fight. And you can win, if you have the stamina and tenacity.

Stay faithful to your own discovery, leave the rest and life will take care of it.

If you're going to read minds, start with a simple one.

I've still got a brilliant head of hair, which refuses to lay down.