“Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.”

All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody – benefiting humanity – and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.

Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.

What people need and what they want may be very different.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

Man’s greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Most people like hard work, particularly when they’re paying for it.

Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.

The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.

Freedom cannot be bestowed – it must be achieved.

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Listen to your elder’s advice not because they are always right, but because they have more experience of being wrong.

Knowing many things doesn’t teach insight.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don’t let it get the best of you.

If you knew who walked beside you at all times, on the path that you have chosen, you could never experience fear or doubt again.

The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.

Don’t focus too much on your failure, but acknowledge the many experiences you have.

Find the flaws in your ideas and eliminate them. Learn from your experiences.

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.