W. Clement Stone

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

Be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

All I want to do is change the world.

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that’s just a fact.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.

You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.

A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed receipt.

Dharma is what the Buddha taught. It is the way of understanding and love-how to understand, how to love, how to make understanding and love into real things.

There is a great deal of human nature in people.

He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.

Riches are for spending.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.