“For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.”

“It is in the best interest of a man to become a Karma-Yogi and work to the best of his abilities and without bothering about the results.”

“The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.”

“If a man does his best, what else is there?”

“A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.”

“That it does not matter what a man believes is a statement heard on every side today. … What he believes tells him what the world is for. How can men who disagree about what the world is for agree about any of the minutiae of daily conduct? The statement really means that it does not matter what a man believes so long as he does not take his beliefs seriously.”

“Every person born into this world has a natural right to sustain, preserve, and defend his own life to the best of his ability.”

“I have read many definitions of what is a conservationist, and written not a few myself, but I suspect that the best one is written not with a pen, but with an axe. It is a matter of what a man thinks about while chopping, or while deciding what to chop. A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke he is writing his signature on the face of his land.”

“Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.”

“He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.”