“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.”            …

  “Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more.        If you concentrate on that which you don’t have,            …

  “The greatest good you can do for another             is not just to share your riches,              but to…

  “The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want,          and, if they can’t…

  “If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it,                            …

       “It’s not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy.                  The bee is praised. The mosquito…

              “Every small positive change we make in ourselves                              …

                            “Use what talents you possess:                      …

 “Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless people. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.”  …

                        “Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”                  …