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

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.

Who would have ever heard of Theodore Roosevelt outside of his immediate community if he had only half committed himself? The great secret of his career was that he has flung his whole life with all the determination and energy he could muster.

It is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians, men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, have labored as hard, if not harder, than day laborers; and that the most obvious reason why they have been superior to other men is that they have taken more pains than other men.

There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.

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

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