My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that setbacks and griefs which endure help us in our march forward.

A winner never taught me how to quit.

To a greater force, and to a better nature, you, free, are subject, and that creates the mind in you, which the heavens have not in their charge. Therefore if the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. The proceed to improve on the worst.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.