A man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

Perhaps without that adversity I might not have been able to preserve later on when my financial burdens were redoubled. I learned then how to keep problems from crushing me. I refused to worry about more than one thing at a time, and I would not let useless fretting about a problem, no matter how important, keep me from sleeping.

Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.