Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

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

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.