If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people.

The common denominator of happy and successful people is that they spend their time with other happy and successful people.

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've go to work to gain.

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed—there's so little competition.

Far better it is to dare might things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they in the gray twilight that knows nor victory nor defeat.

No ascent is too steep for mortals. Heaven itself we seek in our folly.

For great and low there's but one test: 'Tis that each man do his best.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth later in uglier ways.