Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.

The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Everything good is costly and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation of favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.

May your troubles be less and your blessings be more.

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win—if you don't, you won't.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, butt in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.

Far better it is to dare might things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they in the gray twilight that knows nor victory nor defeat.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness for the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.