[E]very job is composed of many small details, any one of which, if overlooked, can create big problems later.

Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.

O Divine Providence, I ask not for more riches but more wisdom with which to make wiser use of the riches you gave me at birth, consisting in the power to control and direct my own mind to whatever ends I might desire.

Life’s greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try, and fail!

Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.

When one is truly ready for a thing, it puts in its appearance.

No one could become an efficient leader or take the initiative in any great undertaking without belief in himself.