I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not... - Abraham Lincoln

"Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be."

"That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well."

"Achievement has no color"

"The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them."

"A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones."