The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.

Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made or never made.

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

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

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.

We cannot separate our lives from time. Why is it that we are so extravagant, so thoughtless, in our waste of time, especially in youth, when we cling so tenaciously to life? You cannot separate a wasted hour from the same duration of your life. If you waste your time, you must waste your life. If you improve your time, you cannot help improving your life.

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.