“…the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation’s destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.”

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.

The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.

A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.

Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.

It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.

You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.

If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.