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Success is never certain. Failure is never final.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Every burden is a blessing.

Tough times never last but tough people do.

Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.

I am a part of all that I have seen.

On the ladder of success: Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Turn your scars into stars.

The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.

The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition. There is no mystery in business success...If you do each day's task successfully, and stay faithfully within these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so much about, and keep your head clear, you will come out all right.

If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.

He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.

Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

I'm at an age where I think more about food than I do about sex. Last week I put a mirror over my dining room table.

Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.

Never tell me the odds.

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.