It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.

It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.

Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.

The mill cannot grind with the water that has passed.

The world makes way for the man with an idea.

The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

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.