A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

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

Many mothers make the mistake of forever looking for the bad in the child, trying to . . . uproot and drive it out. This is like trying to eject the darkness from a room without opening the shutters and letting in the light. As John Newton said, 'I cannot sweep the darkness out, but I can shine it out.'

How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?

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

We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.

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.