"You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose."
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other."
"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter usfrom the support of a cause we believe to be just."
"Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be."
"In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement."
"All I have learned, I learned from books."