“I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down...
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is to try just one more time
“The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing
“Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves
“I believe that the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that line
“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite
“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common