"Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five."

"Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road."

"The only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet."

"The older we get the more we realize that service to others is the only way to stay happy. If we do nothing to benefit others, we will do nothing to benefit ourselves."

"The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do -- they always reach."

"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way." -- Babe Ruth

"The real voyage of discovery consists of not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."

"Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take many small steps."

"Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness."

"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do and you've done it."

"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way."

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it."

"I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days."

"Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence."

"It is never too late to be what you might have been." -- George Eliot

"Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The 'if' thinker broods over a difficulty or a setback. The 'how' thinker wastes no energy on postmortems when trouble or even disaster hits him. He immediately starts looking for the best solution."

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."