Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time read more

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

A baby is born with a need to be loved and never outgrows it.

A baby is born with a need to be loved and never outgrows it.

Any person who recognizes this greatest power... the power to choose. Begins to realize that he is the one that read more

Any person who recognizes this greatest power... the power to choose. Begins to realize that he is the one that is doing the choosing and that friends, although they mean well, cannot do his choosing for him, nor can his relatives. Consequently, he develops real self-confidence based upon his own ability, upon his own action, and upon his own initiative.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground it will
but grow and gather to itself such read more

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground it will
but grow and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts
through it will blow up everything in its way.

Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.

Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a
being of power, intelligence, and read more

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a
being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts,
he holds the key to every situation.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at
his rock perhaps a hundred times read more

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at
his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was
not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.