Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.

The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Half the failures of this world arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment. If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.