If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.

Born, n. a person who talks when you wish him to listen.

An inability to stay quiet . . . is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

Meaningful silence is better than meaningless words.

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

The No. 1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.

We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.

The secret of success is conviction and persistence.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.