... women have their roots in the ground, and often those roots are starved and ravaged, yet there is not a human alive who cannot reach and touch, with... her fingers, the very top of God's rainbow.

Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all.

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.

I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.

I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.

In this world, the greatest rewards of success, wealth and happiness are usually obtained not through the exercise of special powers such a genius or intellect but through one's energetic use of simple means and ordinary qualities.