You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are.

I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.

There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done, there are thousands to prophesy failure. There are thousands to point out to you, one by one, the dangers that await to assail you. But just buckle in with a bit of a grin, just take off your coat and go to it; just start to sing as you tackle the thing that "cannot be done," and you'll do it.

Courage must come from the soul within; the man must furnish the will to win. So figure it out for yourself, my lad. You were born with all that the great have had.

You'll be richer in the end than a prince, if you're a friend.

For Age is not alone of time, or we should never see men old and bent at forty and men young at seventy-three.

But keep on working and hoping still. For in spite of the grumblers who stand about, somehow, it seems, all things work out.