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

Bragging often precedes begging.

It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.

The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.

Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.

Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.

Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.

Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.

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.

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.

Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.

In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.

I am still bullied occasionally. However, none of my current bullies really exist. They’re all in my head. Be your own best friend instead of your worst enemy.

The only way out of the current crisis is to amend the Constitution.

I am swept beneath your current – it pulls me in, and I don’t even try to swim.

Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.

I’d like to think that throughout my career whatever my current record is has 110% of my best.

Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life’s crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.