“The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.”

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.

We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.

What we call God’s justice is only man’s idea of what he would do if he were God.

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.

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.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.

To join the top 1% you have to do what the 99% won’t.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

To be recognized for the hard work my team and I put into ‘Starboy’ is an honor.

Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.

Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

The work ahead of us will be hard, but I promise you this: I will be a President for all Americans – whether you voted for me or not.