"It is a essential truth that life is an unwritten ledger; each passing sunrise offers a clean and waiting page — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The stoutest timber is forged in the fiercest gales, not in the sheltered grove. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."

"Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions."

"The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do."

"It is a quiet truth that where compassion abides, fear and resentment lose their dominion."

"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past."

"A peaceful heart knows that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."

"To dream is to realize that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."