I will greet this day with love in my heart.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

You will achieve your grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again.

I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving toward the watcher on the shore.

To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?

Those who act receive the prizes.

The talkers are rising above the thinkers.

[I want to be remembered] as a sweet Christian girl, who was always loving and kind to everyone.

A book begins as a private excitement of the mind.

The first step to problem solving is figuring out who's got the problem.

Our stares connected and we were quiet for a long minute, united by our misery. At least he understood me and I understood him. "A fine pair we make,” he said. "Yeah.

If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.