“The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.”

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.

Forgiveness doesn’t always looks like things returning to normal. Words and actions change actions.

When the leaves begin to fall, I find myself returning to old playlists in hopes that I can feel you holding my hand, or kissing me goodnight, or hear you singing my name into songs and blueing when it makes no sense.

My longing is to have you back. Your body, your soul all at once.

She left this world with so many unanswered questions. But returned with an open heart.

Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.

Without a thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will soon fall away and return to the world.

Love is just going until love is gone gone gone. But love will come back there’s no doubt about that.

Doesn’t he know I want everything? And in return, I’ll give him all of me.