“You know my children that humanity advances only by forming itself an ideal and endeavoring to realize it. Every passion has its ideal which is modified by that of the whole.”

“The grain-fields went up the hillsides. Now as we went higher there was a wind blowing the grain.”

“The first step to having something in your life is to see yourself having it in your mind.”

“Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. ... You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of t...”