The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring out our possibilities. She will strip us of wealth, humble our pride, humiliate our ambition, let us down from the ladder of fame, will discipline us in a thousand ways, if she can develop a little character. Everything must give way to that. Wealth is nothing, position is nothing, fame is nothing, manhood is everything.

Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

To think you can creates the force that can.

The trouble with us is that we expect too much from the great happenings, the unusual things, and we overlook the common flowers on the path of life, from which we might abstract sweets, comforts, delights.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.

Character is a mark cut upon something, and this indelible mark determines the only true value of all people and all their work.