You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.

Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

When one door closes, another one opens.

Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to that has gained its growth in a few days or weeks, beside a man who only attains it in as many years.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.