"People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen."
"Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune."
"In the end it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are."
"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these."
"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes in to us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands, and hopes we've learned something from yesterday."
"Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter."
"I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success, but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life."
"When you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, the day will come when you can do the things you want to do when you want to do them."
"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom."
"When a man dies, if he can pass enthusiasm along to his children, he has left them an estate of incalculable value."