The circumstances that surround a man's life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.

I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come

Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.

We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.

Sometimes, as we're stumbling along in the dark, we hit something good.

God grant me the strength to endure all things.

Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an angel!

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life.

Yes, I made mistakes by rebelling, by acting out in confused ways.

Life on this earth first emerged from the sea. As the polar ice melts and sea level rises, we humans find ourselves facing the prospect that once again we may quite literally become ocean.

Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou art so fair.

But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.

It is assumed that anyone who makes a million dollars has a unique gift, though he might have made it off some useless gadget.