The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.

You are today the result of your thoughts of yesterday, and the many yester days preceding it. You are forming today the mold for what you will be in the years to come.

When obstacles or difficulties arise, the positive thinker takes them as creative opportunities. He welcomes the challenge of a tough problem and looks for ways to turn it to advantage.

To be independent to my mind does not mean to be isolated, to be the priest or the Levite, but rather to be the good Samaritan. There is no real independence save only as we secure it through the law of service.

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

No man who continues to add something to the material, intellectual, and moral well-being of the place in which he lives is long left without proper reward.