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

We cannot separate our lives from time. Why is it that we are so extravagant, so thoughtless, in our waste of time, especially in youth, when we cling so tenaciously to life? You cannot separate a wasted hour from the same duration of your life. If you waste your time, you must waste your life. If you improve your time, you cannot help improving your life.

There never will be a trust in excellence or a combination in superiority. As long as you can do a thing a little better than anybody else can do it, you need no bond or trade-mark to protect the product of your brains.

There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will.

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.

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