“You are not, nor ever will be, better than anyone else besides the person you are now.”

“Be friendly to everyone. Those who deserve it the least need it the most.”

“Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time.”

“Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.”

“Untapped potential is the difference between where a person is now and where he or she can be.”

“The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.”

“It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”

“In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.”