The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of the weak.

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young.

Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.