Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity, but with it you can accomplish miracles.

Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.

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

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.

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.

You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.