“Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.”

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

If it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

Failure — The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

We work to become, not to acquire.

If you want work well done, select a busy man – the other kind has no time.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.

The world isn’t getting any easier. With all these new inventions I believe that people are hurried more and pushed more, The hurried way is not the right way; you need time for everything – time to work, time to play, time to rest.

I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, blessed be his name, is not a body, and that he is free from all accidents of matter, and that he has not any form whatsoever.

Put out the good and keep the bad – don’t believe all you read in the Bible.

I must have been out of my mind to believe pain wouldn’t leave any scars.

I used to believe that living is doing, moving, getting. But, there is life in staying still. A bird is a bird even when she isn’t flying.

Everything was not lost. This was the message we needed to carry forward. It’s what I truly believed. It wasn’t ideal, but it was our reality—the world as it is. We needed now to be resolute, to keep our feet pointed in the direction of progress.

It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything else.