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

Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.

Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.

When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.

…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.

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

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.

Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.

If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.

The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.

It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.

Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.

I made a written report which is still today in existence.

You didn’t happen to see your future mother-in-law at that meeting today, did you?”

There is…a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied..

She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.

I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater.

A part of society in our countries would still prefer an authoritarian regime today. These are people with the mentality of Homo sovieticus. But they also exist in France – just think of Le Pen – and even in Finland and Sweden.

Today, … anything you can come up with that works is worth trying.

This is a comment on fear. Today it’s like ‘They’re going to bomb the New York subway and there’s the avian flu and 50 million of us are going to die.’