"The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me."
"Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening."
"We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart."
"Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities."
"For success, attitude is equally as important as ability."
"All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education."