Honesty is a very expensive gift. Do not expect it from cheap people.

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

The liar is no better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If all people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.

I am more interested in the return of my money than I am with a return on my money.

Money grows on the tree of persistence.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

The surest way to relieve a man of his poverty is to make him uncomfortable in it.