Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along.

Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find "tomorrow" on the calendars of fools.

Use wisely your power of choice.

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important to acquire peace of mind and serenity.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.