“To remain healthy a man must have some goal, some purpose in life that he can respect and be proud to work for.”

Leaders are leaders only as long as they have the respect and loyalty of their followers.

The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.

The healthiest of all human emotions is gratitude.

Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.

To be totally without stress is to be dead.

Indeed, not all attacks-especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin-are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to assume that they are.

Gratitude conserves the vital energies of a person more than any other attitude tested.

Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

To make a great dream come true, you must first have a great dream.

Stress is the spice of life.

The builder of the best racing car is not necessarily its best driver.

Nothing erases unpleasant thoughts more effectively than conscious concentration on pleasant ones.

Gratitude is the most important of all human emotions.

Almost no germ is unconditionally dangerous to man; its disease-producing ability depends upon the body’s resistance.

My advice to any young person at the beginning of their career is to try to look for the mere outlines of big things with their fresh, untrained and unprejudiced mind.

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.

Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.

Have goals so big your problems pale in comparison.

Goals work. Pick one debt, and then put every dime into paying down that one debt. Once that debt is paid off, start paying down the next debt. Pretty soon it’s time to move from paying debt to building savings.

No economy, no matter how bad, can hold down a goal that is followed by enough action.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

The fishing is best where the fewest go. There is just less competition for bigger goals.

Thus, the photons which constitute a ray of light behave like intelligent human beings: out of all possible curves they always select the one which will take them most quickly to their goal.

Don’t be afraid to be ambitious about your goals. Hard work never stops. Neither should your dreams.