Be around people that make you want to be a better person, who make you feel good, make you laugh, and remind you what's important in life.

Greatness has a fragrance. Get close to it and that fragrance will arouse your potential.

There is no such thing as a neutral relationship. All your relationships affect you — some pull you down and others lift you up.

When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.

The teachers I've learned the most from, didn't think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.

Relationships are our primary teacher. They are the context in which we either grow into God consciousness, or deny ourselves and others the opportunity to do so.

A Warrior knows that his best teachers are the people whom he shares the battlefield.

Let us look at every person who annoys or agitates us, as God's means of grace, God's instrument for our purification, for the working out of the humility Jesus our Life breathes within us.

I guess that was the forerunner of our Saturday morning meetings. We wanted everybody to know what was going on and everybody to be aware of the mistakes we made. When somebody made a bad mistake—whether it was myself or anybody else—we talked about it, admitted it, tried to figure out how to correct it, and then moved on to the next days work.

I look upon every day to be lost in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.