“The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.”

What we call God’s justice is only man’s idea of what he would do if he were God.

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.

All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody – benefiting humanity – and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.

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

Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.

Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.

What people need and what they want may be very different.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

I’ve only had two rules. Do all you can and do it the best you can. It’s the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.

The ban directly hampers the partys ability to spread its message and hamstrings voters seeking to inform themselves about the candidates and issues.

I know my body. I know my mind. I know what I can do.

What India needs is ease of doing business and inherent faith in the ability of Indians to catch an opportunity.

I found by deeper breathing, going into the cold, thinking about it, dealing with it; getting the conviction that my ability to breathe deeper is making connections with my body.

I am one of those people who isn’t great at anything, but I’m pretty good at most things.

Today, as always, the people, no less than the courts, must remain vigilant to preserve the principals of our Bill of Rights, lest in our desire to be secure we lose our ability to be free.

Anything a man can imagine, another can create.