“I do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be uncommon — if I can. I seek opportunity — not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed. I refuse to barter incentive for a dole. I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence; the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopia. I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout. I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat. It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid; to think and act for myself, enjoy the benefit of my creations, and to face the world boldly and say, this I have done.”

“I shall pass this way but once; any good that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being; let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.”

“If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... Regardless of what they say.”

“Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.”

“If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all.”

“We owe each other truth and courtesy - though truth is sometimes a real constraint and courtesy inconvenient.”

“Opportunity is a bird that never perches.”

“Be great in act, as you have been in thought.”

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

“Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.”

“How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”

“Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.”

“You can gain more friends by being yourself than you can by putting up a front. You can gain more friends by building people up than you can by tearing them down. And you can gain more friends by taking a few minutes from each day to do something kind for someone, whether it be a friend or a complete stranger. What a difference one person can make!”

“In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.”

“Making money doesn't oblige people to forfeit their honor or their conscience.”

“The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.”

“As surely as the acorn becomes the oak tree, the images in your mind become your reality.”

“The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.”

“Jumping at several small opportunities may get us there more quickly than waiting for one big one to come along.”

“In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.”

“Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.”

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”

“How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?”

“To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.”

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”

“Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.”

“The one thing that matters is the effort.”

“Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.”

“Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.”

“See first that the design is wise and just; that ascertained, pursue it resolutely.”

“A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it. ”