There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.

There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their
food, and tyrannize their teachers.

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their
food, and tyrannize their teachers.

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

A pint can't hold a quart -- if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected read more

A pint can't hold a quart -- if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

For a long time it has seemed to me that life was about to begin; Real
life. But there was read more

For a long time it has seemed to me that life was about to begin; Real
life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be got
through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt
to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these
obstacles were my life.

If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator read more

If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator rather than catering to it.