Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

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

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can't.

Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.

Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask; yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle to keep the wolf from the door.

No man fails who does his best.