First you get a habit, then it gets you.

Nature yields her most profound secrets to the person who is determined to uncover them.

Scars are wisdom in disguise.

Enthusiasm, if fueled by inspiration and perseverance, travels with passion and its destination is excellence.

Nothing is more tragic - or more common - than mental inertia.

There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.

A mind ill with negative attitudes is more dangerous than a sick body, for its sickness is always contagious.