Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

To make headway, improve your head.

Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.

Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first rate truck driver than a tenth rate executive.

A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.

Work is the meat of life pleasure the dessert.

The truth doesnt hurt unless it ought to.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.

The proper study of mankind is books.

I have written about 10 books, all just practical encouragement for moms.

Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.

Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist.

As I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit of God, that these books contain the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books.

Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell me that the genesis of this story was worth exploring.

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.