We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible.

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible.

Set your target and keep trying until you reach it.

Set your target and keep trying until you reach it.

Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know
in order to find out what we do read more

Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know
in order to find out what we do not know....Hence, to think creatively, we
must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't
succeed; you must have a larger ambition. read more

The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't
succeed; you must have a larger ambition. There is no mystery in business
success...If you do each day's task successfully, and stay faithfully
within these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so much
about, and keep your head clear, you will come out all right.

Everywhere you look in science, the harder it becomes to understand the
universe without God.

Everywhere you look in science, the harder it becomes to understand the
universe without God.

We make a vessel from a lump of clay; It is the space inside the vessel that makes it useful. read more

We make a vessel from a lump of clay; It is the space inside the vessel that makes it useful. ... Thus, while the tangible has advantages, It is the intangible that makes it useful.

A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.

A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.