Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Do the difficult things while they are easy, and do the great things while they are small.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

One who is serious all day will never have a good time, while one who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one is useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.

The things which . . . are esteemed as the greatest good of all . . . can be reduced to these three headings: to wit, Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.

If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present...gratefully.

My prayer is that when I die, all hell rejoices that I am out of the fight.

If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being.

It matters not what goal you seek It's secret here reposes; You've got to dig from week to week To get Results and Roses.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.

The minute you get away from fundamentals—whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation—the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you're doing.

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave.