“Use life to provide something that outlasts it.”

Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.

There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one’s best. The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.

Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.

Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.

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.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

The way I look at it is, if you don’t want somebody to know something, don’t say it. If you don’t want them to see you do something, don’t do it.

If you’re disciplined enough, you don’t get down when you’re behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.

No longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

I don’t want to go out there and do something 3,000 other people can do.

I don’t remember as a kid wanting to do or be anything else but drive something, be a race driver.

Teachers are always trying to inspire people to do better, to learn, to grow. That’s what we do, and we’re proud of the success we’ve had here doing that, and it’s something we’ll certainly continue to do.