“Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.”

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

See deep enough, and you see musically.

There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.

From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.

The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now.

Best not to know what’s waiting around the corner.

Don’t ask your leader what you should do, tell them what you are going to do.

Not everyone is coming to the future.

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World’s History shall reveal itself.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.