Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.

If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive all disasters, we will out-live all misfortune. We should be so well balanced and symmetrical, that nothing which could ever happen could throw us off our center, so that no matter what misfortune should overtake us, there would still be a whole magnificent man or woman left after being stripped of everything else.

How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?

Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.

Money, influence, and position are nothing compared with brains, principles, energy and perseverances.

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't.