Adversity isn't set against you to fail; adversity is a way to build your character so that you can succeed over and over again through perseverance.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Let us follow the example of those who have gone before us.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.