"To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success."

"Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world."

"A will finds a way."

"Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight."

"It is a radiant truth that the universe speaks in the silent dialect of universal natural laws."

"The universe speaks in the silent dialect of universal natural laws. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding."

"I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D."