Now I know that patience and time can do more than even strength and passion. The years of frustration are ready to be harvested. All that I have managed to accomplish, and all that I hope to accomplish, has been and will be by that plodding, patient, persevering process which builds the ant heap, particle by particle, thought by thought, step by step.

I will become a firefly and even in the day my glow will be seen in spite of the sun. Let others be as butterflies who preen their wings yet depend on the charity of a flower for life.

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.

Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs.

Practice the art of patience for nature never acts in haste.

I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?

Envy, like the worm, is always attracted to the fairest apple