“Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.”

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it’s such a nice change from being young.

Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.

The good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Business is always interfering with pleasure – but it makes other pleasures possible.

Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.

An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.

Few of us get anything without working for it.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.

Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.

Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.

Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some precipice and now I was falling, as in a dream slowly, even as I continued to hold the thermometer in my hand, een as I stood with the soles of my slippers on the floor.

I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.

We certainly don’t want them to do anything that’s going to affect themselves in an adverse way or affect our program, our university, or our team in an adverse way.

The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn’t frightening, it was more exhilarating.

We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.

Certainly anyone who comes to faith in Christ has a new heart and they have an opportunity for new life and that’s a wonderful thing.

I love what I do so I find ways to keep doing what I love. Music is certainly not all that interests me.