The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

There's a way to do it better - find it.

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

I start where the last man left off.

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.

Religion is all bunk.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.