My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day. Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. No man is wiser for his learning, wit and wisdom are born with a man I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity. People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing. A leader's job is to help people have vision of their potential. Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see there; and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool. When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened. Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope. |