Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which to work and play and serve

Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.

Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing you have long postponed.

A ton of regret never makes an ounce of difference.

Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.

Books are ever available friends, ready to serve you at will.

Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced ...the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose.