We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.

We lift ourselves by our thought.

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

Character is a mark cut upon something, and this indelible mark determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.

Aspiration lifts the life; groveling lowers it. When we are striving for excellence in everything we do the entire life grows and expands, but if we allow our standards to drop, there is a natural progression that follows, a tendency for a downward effort in all that we do thereafter.

It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame.