Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

A beautiful woman is the best investment in marriage a man can make. And anybody who advises otherwise is talking sheer nonsense.

The moment one gives close attention to anything, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.