Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.

Every adversity contains, at the same time, a seed of equivalent opportunity!

Ideas are intangible forces, but they have more power than the physical brains that give birth to them. They have the power to live on, after the brain that creates them has returned to dust.

Your reputation is that which people think you are; your character is that which you are.

No man can afford to express, through words or acts, that which is not in harmony with his own beliefs, and if he does so, he must pay by the loss of his ability to influence others.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Remember,too,that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start,and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they "arrive". The turning point in the lives of those who succeed usually comes at some moment of crisis,through which they are introduced to their "other selves".