Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that's patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.

Your thoughts become things. You decide. You rule. That's pretty cool.

How long should you try? Until.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive, to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love, then make that day count.