"Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself."

"Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it."

"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all."

"Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."

"Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness."

"The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today."

"It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious."

"The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it."

"A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself."

"This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum."

"A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them."

"If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names."

"It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do."

"The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher."

"Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends."

"It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get."

"Initiative is doing the right things without being told."

"A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares."

"If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble."

"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."

"Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true."

"How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success."

"Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used."

"So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs."

"The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward."

"Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time."

"Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation."

"Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself."

"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."

"The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."

"We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them."

"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit."

"Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition."

"The thing we fear we bring to pass."

"We work to become, not to acquire."

"A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness."

"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."

"The man who has no problems is out of the game."

"Fear clogs; faith liberates."

"In order to have friends, you must first be one."

"He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much."

"Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it."

"Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things."

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."

"Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away."

"Art is not a thing; it is a way."

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one."

"There is no failure except in no longer trying."

"Responsibility is the price of freedom."

"The supernatural is the natural not yet understood."