Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.
One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
Wealth flows from energy and ideas.
One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.
That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.
The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.
A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.
Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.