Life like war is a series of mistakes and he is best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes.

Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.

No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.

Moments of prayer intruded on by sloth cannot be made up. We may get experience, but we cannot get back the rich freshness and strength which were wrapped up in those moments.

On earth we have nothing to do with success or results but only with being true to God and for God. Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.

Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affection or grief has humanized the soul.

Only so far as a man believes strongly mightily can he act cheerfully or do anything worth doing.

We each must select the best hardships for our best future.

You are beaten to earth? Well well what's that? Come up with a smiling face it's nothing against you to fall down flat but to lie there - that's disgrace.

Be a creator of circumstances rather than just a creature of circumstances. Be proactive rather than reactive.

A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.

I am the slime oozing out from your TV set. You will obey me while I lead you, and eat the garbage while I feed you.

I started to build barriers between myself and others to protect myself.

Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.

A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

Her eyes the glowworm lend thee, The shooting stars attend thee; And the elves also, Whose little eyes glow Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee.