he rewards our efforts with peace and joy.

that habituation is a slow, imperceptible sinking, whose point of no return is not clearly marked.

manifests a good person, a good character, a good habit, and also because good deeds gradually form good habits, good character, good persons.

Overcomers concentrate on details that go unnoticed by others. They do what needs to be done, even when no one is watching.

If you have a steel ball, solid steel, the size of this earth, 25,000 miles in circumference, and every one million years a little sparrow would be released to land on that ball to sharpen his beak and fly away only to come back another million years later and begin again, by the time he would have worn that ball down to the size of a BB, eternity would have just begun.

Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

I was not an activist.

I try to be the same guy every day, no matter the situation, no matter the adversity.

I'm the sort of person who doesn't hear the word 'no' - I hear 'find another way to get what you want.'

You can do more good by being good than any other way.

Up, then, with speed, and work; Fling ease and self away This is no time for thee to sleep Up, watch, and work, and pray!

Go, labour on while it is day, The world's dark night is hastening on. Speed, speed thy work, cast sloth away-- It is not thus that souls are won.