Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl.

Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

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

Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed?

Knowing is not enough; we must apply!

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

Quality is everyone's responsibility.

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

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

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

As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

I have always supported measures and principles and not men.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.