No society could advance if everyone was smaller than his place.

Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be; when an opportunity to be more than you are now is presented and you feel impelled toward it, take it. It will be the first step toward a greater opportunity.

Cast out pride and vanity; have no thought of trying to rule over others or of outdoing them.

Always do what you feel deeply in the within to be the true thing to do.

To exercise some sort of control over others is the secret motive of every selfish person.

You are not mentally developed by what you read, but by what you think about what you read.

There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought; it is the hardest work in the world