A man will remain a rag-picker as long as he has only the vision of a rag-picker.

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.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

We can give our smiles, our encouragement, our sympathy to someone who needs them every day of the year.

No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more - to be happy and successful - than much money.

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.

Every one who has labored honestly in the past has aided to place knowledge and comfort within the reach of a constantly increasing number.