“Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.”

A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.

To make headway, improve your head.

Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.

The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. … Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.

Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

Time mends all, ends all things earthly.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man’s hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook

Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.

Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.

Madame Curie didn’t stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.

I taught myself how to pole vault in one day. The next day I entered a meet to pole vault and won it all for the state of Alabama.

I’m going to become the Pope next year. Nothing is impossible.

If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.

My manager said the next best inspiration to heartbreak is travel, and it’s true.

In the face of impermanence, if your next thought is good, this is what we call the realization body.

If you can make your next day better than the previous one, then you will see what it really means something to you and not everything that people think you need for your life.

You need a wisecracking buddy standing next to you? That’s the role for me. You got the guys who are knock-down, drag-out handsome. That’s what people want to see. Let that guy be the hero. But there’s always a role for the Everyman.

If you get to the edge of the penalty area with the ball and don’t know what to do next, just stick the ball in the net for now. We can evaluate the other options later.