We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.

Keep fear out of your child's mind, as you would keep poison out of his body; for fear is the deadliest of mental poisons.

People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been content with mediocrity. They have not confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others so them, but always a little better. They always pushed things that came to their hands a little higher up, this little farther on, that counts in the quality of life's work. It is constant effort to be first-class in everything one attempts that conquers the heights of excellence.

How true it is that, if we are cheerful and contented, all nature smiles, the air seems more balmy, the sky clearer, the earth has a brighter green... the flowers are more fragrant... and the sun, moon, and stars all appear more beautiful, and seem to rejoice with us.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.