If we learned everything there is to know in kindergarten, it was
promptly drummed out of us in first grade.

If we learned everything there is to know in kindergarten, it was
promptly drummed out of us in first grade.

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a
pillow-I have still joy in read more

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a
pillow-I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

It is overdoing the thing to die for love.

It is overdoing the thing to die for love.

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by
their understandings.

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by
their understandings.

Big results require big ambitions.

Big results require big ambitions.

Skills are cheap; chemistry is expensive.

Skills are cheap; chemistry is expensive.

I will grow. I will become something new and grand, but no grander than
I now am. Just as the read more

I will grow. I will become something new and grand, but no grander than
I now am. Just as the sky will be different in a few hours, its present
perfection and completeness is not deficient, so am I presently perfect
and not deficient because I will be different tomorrow. I will grow and I
am not deficient.

To put away aimlessness and weakness, and to begin to think with
purpose, is to enter the ranks of those read more

To put away aimlessness and weakness, and to begin to think with
purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize
failure as one of the pathways to attainment; who make all conditions
serve them, and who think strongly, attempt fearlessly, and accomplish
masterfully.