I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools.

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

Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.

All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath--so what does that make today worth?

A field of clay touched by the genius of man becomes a castle.

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.

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.