... the deep experience of the lonely climb on the mountain of success brings a wealth beyond power to compute. To you all suffering is understandable and your heart opens wide in sympathy.

Despising cowardice in others, I wished to prove myself no coward. Believing in the good, the gentle, the beautiful things of life, I addressed myself to the sweet duty of keeping these attributes for my children's sake and my own. And in striving to provide a living for them, I found a success beyond my wildest dreams.

The small perplexities of small minds eddy and boil about you. Confident from the experience that has led you out of these same dangers, you attack each problem as it appears, unafraid.

Life is beset by many annoyances, and those that stand out above all are the life- insurance and advertising agents.

There is romance in coffee. It comes from the ends of the earth, and goes to the far corners of man's habitation.

Life means opportunity, and the thing men call death is the last wonderful, beautiful adventure.

One must eliminate the traditional and cling to the essential.