The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate read more

Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that process gain strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it,.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at read more

Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of read more

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious read more

The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.

Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline.

Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline.

We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe read more

We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe we loved so much was there. The pure, tender, loving spirit which loved us so tenderly, is above us -- loving us, praying for us, and free from all suffering and woe -- yes, that is a comfort, and that first birthday in another world must have been a far brighter one than any in this poor world below!.