For honest merit to succeed amid the tricks and intrigues which are now so lamentably common, I know is difficult; but the honor of success is increased by the obstacles which are to be surmounted. Let me triumph as a man or not at all.

Unless we take that first step into the unknown, we will never know our own potential!

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

Walking slowly, even the donkey will reach Lhasa.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Truth, contentment, patience, and mercy, belong to great minds.