If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn't solve any problems.

Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.'

If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time.

Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.

Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.

Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.'

Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.

Money is not the most important thing, but when you need it, there are few substitutes. So while I like the things money can buy, I love what money won't buy. It bought me a house but it won't buy me a home. It would buy me a companion but it won't buy me a friend.

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Success must never be measured by how much money you have.

Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.

Whether it's eight o'clock in the morning or eight o'clock at night, I always try to greet others before they have a chance to speak to me.

Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.

Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?

People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

Nature has always had more force than education.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.