We do not need more knowledge, we need more character!"

"When you see 10 troubles rolling down the road, if you don't do anything, 9 of them will roll into a ditch before they get to you."

"The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct."

"If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress."

Nothing is the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; . . . Genius will not; . . . Education will not; . . . Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.