We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success.

People do not realise the immense value of utilising spare minutes.

Character: the grandest thing in the world.

A man will remain a rag-picker as long as he has only the vision of a rag-picker.

It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.

Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. It is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.