“Prayer can guarantee anyone's success but never someone's failure”

“It would be a remarkable life, if we live it in the same manner as we do once we find out we do not have much to live”

“History most grandiose accomplishments can have the most trivial origin”

“History fondly remembers those who meet expectations but is written by a few who exceed them”

“Past success secures future failure if we continue to bask in its glow for too long”

“Wake up call may be a disastrous failure, if it results in a life change, the failure is worth the suffering”

“If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.”

“I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prov...”

“Not everything you're good at is what you're called to do.”