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

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation’s proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren’t enjoying today’s sunshine.

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.

That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.

Beware of the person who can’t be bothered by details.

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.

Don’t let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

He isn’t a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities.

Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.

We, we live! ours are the hours, and the living have their claims.

How you look is your statement, because it’s a claiming of yourself.

Owning our power means claiming the credibility and uniqueness of our own humanity.

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

I’m not against the government building roads. That is a legitimate government function. But I am very much against the government claiming that their building the road is the reason somebody on the road is successful.

It’s better late than never! Boss up and and claim that success.

Love is something that’s really serious and private that you can’t try to claim or know.

The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.